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From: "Swaminathan Sivasubramanian" <ssivasu@us.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 22:09:46 +0000
Subject: [Linux-ia64] atomic add instruction
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Hello Everyone,

I  want an atomic function that does addition of a constant to the value in
a memory location and returns the previous value in that location.

 Is there any macro/function defined in IA-64's atomic.h already. (will
fetch-and-add solve the purpose?) or one should write his own function for
it

Thanking in advance,
Swami