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Message-ID: <20071026190856.18510fc4@the-village.bc.nu>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:08:56 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Bart Van Assche" <bart.vanassche@...il.com>
Cc: "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"Andrew Haley" <aph@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: Is gcc thread-unsafe?
> non-volatile variables. But for asm statements this can be solved by
> adding memory to the list of clobbered registers -- this will prevent
> any reordering of manipulations of non-volatile variables and asm
> statements.
IFF the processor doesn't reorder them in hardware, which on some
processors is visibly out of order when viewed from an I/O device or
another CPU.
You can stop the compiler but not the CPU - and some processors will
certainly speculatively load across conditionals, reorder writes etc
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