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Date:      Thu, 18 Nov 2004 15:41:50 -0800
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
Cc:        freebsd-threads@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: atomic_64 operations
Message-ID:  <419D333E.7000906@elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <419D2FF8.7070602@he.iki.fi>
References:  <419D2FF8.7070602@he.iki.fi>

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I don't remember, but if it's here we probably need to have it on all 
architectures..
The 64 bit archs would be ok I guess.. don't know about ARM etc.


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