Subj : Re: implementing atomic<> on x86
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Alexander Terekhov
Date : Thu Jul 28 2005 11:00 pm


Sean Kelly wrote:
[...]
> Basically, I'm wondering whether I need to do anything fancy when
> implementing atomic<>::load(msync::acq) for x86.

You need to do nothing apart from telling your D compiler that this 
function has acquire semantics. 

regards,
alexander.

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