On Sep 12, 2009, at 2:50 AM, Mike Harrison wrote:

> Atomicity is a completely seperate issue as far as the compiler is  
> concerned

Do any C compilers include support for "atomicity" ?  GCC doesn't, nor  
Intel's C compiler for x86, but it's something that might be more  
likely to show up in a microcontroller-oriented compiler.  (OTOH, Some  
of the "big" CPUs have rather obscure methods to achieve efficient  
atomicity in the face of their massive pipelines, instruction  
reordering, and so on.)

BillW

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