On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 20:58 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 02:44 +0200, Jens M Andreasen wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 02:24 +0200, Jens M Andreasen wrote: > > > > >> I am looking for a cross-platform implementation of an atomic > > > > >> integer. > > > > > > sizeof(int) is your friend > > > > > > int speedy; as well, since int is defined to be the fastest integer on > > > your platform of choice. > > > > > Uhmm, I was reliying on you using a contemporary implementation. For a > > philosophical discussion you might prefer to look elsewhere > > not sure what you mean, but on sparcs, int writes are not atomic unless > you only use the lower 24 bits. > Right, I tried to retract some of what I said that is only valid for the cheap stuff available today
BTW: What sparc? I came in with 64bit datapaths ... > > --
