[patch] Shark reroute LLVM atomic intrinsics to Zero

Matthew Flaschen matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Mon Apr 6 07:25:47 PDT 2009


Gary Benson wrote:
> Having said that, is there any reason to use atomic intrinsics on a
> single processor system?  And, do multiprocessor ARM systems exist?

I think the answers are yes, and definitely yes.  Even with a single
core, a thread can still be preempted.  And there are definitely
multi-processor ARM
(http://www.arm.com/products/CPUs/ARMCortex-A9_MPCore.html).

Matt Flaschen



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