From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Sun, 04 Jan 2004 09:09:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web10102.mail.yahoo.com ([IPv6:::ffff:216.136.130.52]:53366 "HELO web10102.mail.yahoo.com") by linux-mips.org with SMTP id ; Sun, 4 Jan 2004 09:09:25 +0000 Message-ID: <20040104090922.35955.qmail@web10102.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [128.107.253.43] by web10102.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 04 Jan 2004 09:09:22 GMT Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 09:09:22 +0000 (GMT) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?karthikeyan=20natarajan?= Subject: Regarding the LL & SC instructions To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 3863 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: karthik_96cse@yahoo.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Hi All, Seems that LL & SC instrutions operate on a 'word' data. Can we use the same instructions to do a atomic increment on a 'byte' data. If not, are there any specific instructions to operate on a byte data? (Like, LLD & SCD for doubleword data) or else, any method to achieve this using the LL & SC instr? Thanks much, -karthi ===== The expert at anything was once a beginner ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html