[Haiku-commits] r32733 - haiku/trunk/src/apps/terminal

[Axel Dörfler]

Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold at gmx.de> wrote:
> Future Intel 64/IA-32 processor families might not have that 
> property (I haven't read that this is a general architecture property 
> that 
> won't change at least), and I believe the atomic_*() implementations 
> for 
> other architectures (e.g. PPC) do not create memory barriers at all.

Indeed, you're right, although I don't think they can easily change the 
"lock" behaviour on x86, as that potentially breaks existing code.

Bye,
   Axel.