Subj : Re: sync vs. eieio on powerpc
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Alexander Terekhov
Date : Tue Mar 01 2005 02:37 pm


Joe Seigh wrote:
[...]
> > Nope. You can have ordinary loads in between LR and SC+isync. They
> > are unordered (data and control dependencies aside for a moment). And
> > think of moving isync above SC (which is a store, not a load).
> >
> 
> That's what I said. 

No. SC+isync != isync+SC, so to speak.

regards,
alexander.

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