On 17.08.2020 13:50, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > FWIW x86 already has a specific handler for 128bit values: cmpxchg16b. > Maybe it would be better to name this cmpxchg8b? Or rename the > existing one to cmpxchg128 for coherence.
cmpxchg16b() is named after the underlying insn. If we gain cmpxchg64(), then I agree this one wants renaming to cmpxchg128() at the same time. Jan