* Bruce Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010116 19:03] wrote:
> 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.
Just wondering, can't you use 'LOCK addl' and then use 'LOCK addc'?
add longword, add longword with carry? I know it would be pretty
ugly, but it should work, no?
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