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Date:      Mon, 04 Jul 2005 20:19:02 +1000
From:      Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@haven.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, cvs-all@freebsd.org, Andrew Thompson <thompsa@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/amd64/include _types.h src/sys/i386/include _types.h src/sys/net if_bridge.c src/sys/netinet ip_var.h src/sys/netinet6 ip6_var.h
Message-ID:  <42C90D16.3010002@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <29301.1120471973@phk.freebsd.dk>
References:  <29301.1120471973@phk.freebsd.dk>

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> Yes, the alphas "load/store conditional" could, provided that the
> field is entirely inside a cache-line.

  PPC has a similar load/store construct when atomicity is required, and 
it has the advantage over Alpha in that it can do unaligned accesses :)

later,

Peter.



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