Re: [2.4] gcc3 warns about type-punned pointers ?

["J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>]

On 08.29, Antonio Vargas wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 12:35:11AM +0200, J.A. Magallon wrote:
[...]
> > 
> > A collateral question: why is the reason for this function ?
> > long long assignments are not atomic in gcc ?
> 
> On x86, long long int == 64 bits but the chip is 32 bits wide,
> so it uses 2 separate memory accesses. There are 64bit-wide
> instructions which do bus-locking so that the are atomic,
> but gcc will not use them directly.
> 

I know, my question was why gcc does not generate cmpxchg8b on
a 64 bits assign. Or it should not ?

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