Re: [PATCH] tools/memory-model: Document herd7 (internal) representation
From: Andrea Parri
Date: Mon May 27 2024 - 09:35:32 EST
On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 02:25:01PM +0200, Hernan Ponce de Leon wrote:
> On 5/24/2024 6:00 PM, Andrea Parri wrote:
> > > What's the difference between R and R*, or between W and W*?
> >
> > AFAIU, herd7 uses such notation, "*", to denote a load or a store which
> > is also in RMW.
>
> I also got confused with this. What about the following notation?
>
> R[once,RMW] ->rmw W[once,RMW]
I'll add a (minimal) legenda describing this and some other notations in the
next version. As Jonas remarked in his reply, * is what you would currently
find in herd7-generated graphs, so I'd stick to it for the moment.
Andrea