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From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
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CAn we have an atomic increment and decrement primative?

presently we get:

.L565:
        movl $1,%eax
#APP
        lock
        addl %eax,4(%ebx)


the movl is totally useless and it would be 
an absolutly trivial addition..
the question is;
is there a religious reason we don't already have it?
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