30 Apr
2008
30 Apr
'08
5:38 p.m.
In message 48188584.3060109@ge.com you wrote:
The solution in the PowerPC world is to add a "eieio" or "sync" instruction[1] appropriately[2], which prevents the bus interface unit from reordering the memory operations.
No, the solution for ALL architectures is to use the appropriate accessor macros which take care of such things (and probably contain calls like sync or similar).
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