atomic_64 operations

Petri Helenius pete at he.iki.fi
Thu Nov 18 15:27:53 PST 2004


I found a patch dating back to 2002 implementing atomic 64 bit 
arithmetic on i386. Is there a reason why that got never committed?

(this is related to my quest reducing mutexes, having 64bit add would 
reduce the requirement nicely)

Pete



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