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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 35/35] target-alpha: Emulate LL/SC using
 cmpxchg helpers
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To: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
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On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 10:46:57 -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
> Emulating LL/SC with cmpxchg is not correct, since it can
> suffer from the ABA problem.  However, portable parallel
> code is writting assuming only cmpxchg which means that in
> practice this is a viable alternative.

s/writting/written/

		E.