On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Julian Elischer wrote:
> Bruce Evans wrote:
> > I bother with 64-bit longs whether I need to or not :-). They get used on
> > i386's mainly in old code and interfaces that don't use typedefs.
> > Hopefully 64-bit scalars will never need to be accessed atomically.
>
> Too late.
>
> Many statistics in interfaces (i.e. bytes transmitted) are already 64 bit
> words.
These don't use atomic operations (hint: no 64-bit atomic operations are
implemented on i386's). If they need to be atomic, then they must use
locks.
Bruce
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