Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 02:56:26 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: smp@freebsd.org Subject: atomic increment? Message-ID: <3A39F8DA.FD4CA0A5@elischer.org>
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CAn we have an atomic increment and decrement primative?
presently we get:
.L565:
movl $1,%eax
#APP
lock
addl %eax,4(%ebx)
the movl is totally useless and it would be
an absolutly trivial addition..
the question is;
is there a religious reason we don't already have it?
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