Re: [PATCH] [2.5] asm-generic/atomic.h and changes to arm, parisc,

[Luca Barbieri]

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On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 13:16, David Woodhouse wrote:
> 
> [e-mail] said:
> >  Possibly not - volatile doesnt guarantee the compiler won't do
> > 	x = 1
> > 	add *p into x
> > 	store x into *p
> 
> Er, AIUI 'volatile' guarantees that '*p++' will do precisely that. It's a 
> load, an add and a store, and the rules about volatile mean that the load 
> and the store _must_ be separate.

I noticed that while testing how rmk's code behaved differently than
mine (and corrected in the v2 patch).
Before that, I just assumed that since the CPU must anyway issue a
separate load and store, the compiler would use the faster instruction
(that's why there is a LOCK prefix in the i386 instruction set).

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