The fact that cmpb isn't helping proves that getting the cache line in a read-only fashion does *not* do enough to protect the xchgb in this way. But maybe another locking instruction would. Comments?
regards, tom lane Hi, Tom! Possible you help next link 'Replay: Unknown Features of the NetBurst Core' http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/replay.html Best regards, Alexander Kirpa ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly