Hi David,
You asked:
> This instruction (or perhaps I should say intruction family) is
> "cmpxchg*". I've known about a similar one on the m68k ("cas" & "cas2")
> for a while. I was wondering why the writelock code was done using
> "subl" rather than "cmpxchgl":
One reason may be because it is not present on 386 but only 486+ see page
3-100 of Volume II of Pentium III Manuals.
Regards,
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