atomic_64 operations

[Petri Helenius]

Julian Elischer wrote:

> 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.
>
The atomic manpage states:
     The type ``64'' is currently not implemented for any of the atomic 
opera-
     tions on the i386 architecture.

Which makes me assume all other architechtures should be ok except i386?

Pete

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> Petri Helenius wrote:
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>> I found a patch dating back to 2002 implementing atomic 64 bit 
>> arithmetic on i386. Is there a reason why that got never committed?
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>> (this is related to my quest reducing mutexes, having 64bit add would 
>> reduce the requirement nicely)
>>
>> Pete
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