On Wed 22 Mar 2006 at 07:32PM, Rama Krishna wrote:
> In our solaris system atomic_cas( ) is not available in user
> space,to make it available we require to download some of the
> patches. So we are making use of our own atomic primitive. Base on
> your guidance we are trying to modify our primitive to make use of
> CMPXCHG instruction. As atomic_cas() is available in the update
> version. Thanks for your suggestions. But a little question arises
> in my mind for clarity purposes (i.e) how these atomic_cas() and
> CMPXCHG improves over it as all are in assemblylanguage only.
You should just be able to copy the source code of our library routines,
as long as you comply with the CDDL license.
-dp
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