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Subject: Re: Control Dependencies vs C Compilers
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On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 08:50:52AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> Comparing 25+ assembly languages to but two compilers most definitely
> motivates looking hard at doing something with the compilers.

+1, especially since the kernel is not special; anyone working with
threads faces the same issues in userland, which are often hidden
behind the implicit whole-memory clobbers of certain operations or
the call to mutex manipulation functions, but which become a reality
again as soon as you go slightly away from these and try to use
lockless mechanisms.

Willy