On 04/27/2012 10:30 PM, Richard Henderson wrote: > We can perform a single-copy atomic load with an ldrexd insn. > If the load is all we care about, we need not pair this with > a strexd.
Can we? It's good to know. I have had a long email exchange with engineers at ARM, and they would not say that this was safe. If they have changed their mind, I'd like to see chapter and verse. Andrew.