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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Subject: Re: [OT] ppc64 serialization problem
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Greg Smith writes:

> On rare occasions, values A and B will differ!  In the examples that I
> have seen, there is contention with `lock'.  This phenomenon does not
> occur on ppc32 or a number of other architectures that we support.

I would be interested to see the assembler code being generated for
your code snippets.

Paul.