eieio in atomics

David Engebretsen engebret at vnet.ibm.com
Tue May 7 06:31:39 EST 2002


Anton,

I see that you added an eieio in atomic operations in the 2.5 tree.  Can you
shed some light on what was discovered here?  I thought these were not required
to imply a memory barrier.  Was an actual problem hit and do we need a fix put
into the 2.4 code base?

Thanks -

Dave.

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