On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 05:42:24PM -0800, Alan Young wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 10:48:54 -0800 Philip Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > But anyway, sounds like I can NOP it out, I guess.
> 
> You may be able to NOP it if your platform does not require                
> it.  I know the Alpha uses memory barriers.  I think PPC may               
> use them too.   
> 
> Here's a bit from the Alpha Architecture Handbook on the Alpha's
> memory barrier instruction:
> ...

ah. Thanks for the extra info.
[someone might want to comment the thing in the header files]

Solaris handles it differently. It specifies a particular memory mapping as
needing sequential access, at map time, I believe.




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