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Date:      Fri, 15 Dec 2000 10:56:06 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: atomic increment?
Message-ID:  <20001215105605.S19572@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.001215105012.jhb@FreeBSD.org>; from jhb@FreeBSD.ORG on Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 10:50:12AM -0800
References:  <3A39F8DA.FD4CA0A5@elischer.org> <XFMail.001215105012.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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* John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> [001215 10:51] wrote:
> 
> On 15-Dec-00 Julian Elischer wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> man atomic

I think he's looking for a useable and intuative interface.

no offence I hope. :)

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
"I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."


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