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Subject: Re: atomic_64 operations
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On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Petri Helenius wrote:

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

For <machine/atomic.h>?  I'd ask over on -current.

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

-- 
Dan Eischen