Re: Difference between atomic operations and memory barriers

[Valdis . Kletnieks]

On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:30:45 +0530, "Leonidas ." said:

> So we can safely assume that pointer assignment will be done in an
> atomic manner?

Has anybody ever actually made a *production* CPU that had non-atomic
pointer assignments?  And how long before the crazed programmers lynched
and burned the offending CPU designer at the stake? ;)

Non-atomic pointer assignments are the CPU design equivalent of Vogon poetry.
Just Say No. With a shotgun if needed.

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