[dmd-concurrency] word tearing status in today's processors

[Michel Fortin]

Le 2010-01-27 à 14:33, Sean Kelly a écrit :

> I'm nearly certain this works on x86 because x86 can do atomic unaligned writes, which is basically the same as byte-level atomic writes.

You're probably right. I guess I read some things wrong before.

About unaligned writes, what happens if you're crossing the boundary of a memory page?


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