On fre, 2004-06-18 at 08:25, Tim Hockin wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 08:22:29PM -0700, Joshua Haberman wrote: > > One final thing: I'm not sure if this is a problem in practice, but > > most (if not all) processors do not guarantee that memory reads and > > writes are performed in order ...
> > Yes, this was discussed here a while back. For all practical platforms > that the developers cared about, 32 bit aligned access are atomic. > > They are not guaranteed to STAY that way, but for now.. And the most likely outcome for a change in 32 bit atomic access will be a kick upwards to 64 bits ... mvh // Jens M Andreasen
