Any heads up? Thanks.

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 5:28 AM, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)
<jsquy...@cisco.com> wrote:
> On Jan 16, 2013, at 6:41 AM, Leif Lindholm <leif.lindh...@arm.com> wrote:
>
>> That isn't, technically speaking, correct for the Raspberry Pi - but it is a 
>> workaround if you know you will never actually use the asm implementations 
>> of the atomics, but only the inline C ones..
>>
>> This sort of hides the problem that the dedicated barrier instructions were 
>> not available in ARMv6 (it used "system control coprocessor operations" 
>> instead.
>>
>> If you ever executed the asm implementation, you would trigger an undefined 
>> instruction exception on the Pi.
>
> Hah; sweet.  Ok.
>
> So what's the right answer?  Would it be acceptable to use a no-op for this 
> operation on such architectures?
>
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