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Petri HeleniusNov 18, 2004 3:27 pm 
Daniel EischenNov 18, 2004 3:39 pm 
Julian ElischerNov 18, 2004 3:41 pm 
Petri HeleniusNov 18, 2004 10:16 pm 
Petri HeleniusNov 18, 2004 10:17 pm 
Subject:atomic_64 operations
From:Petri Helenius (pe@he.iki.fi)
Date:Nov 18, 2004 3:27:34 pm
List:org.freebsd.freebsd-threads

I found a patch dating back to 2002 implementing atomic 64 bit arithmetic on i386. Is there a reason why that got never committed?

(this is related to my quest reducing mutexes, having 64bit add would reduce the requirement nicely)

Pete