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Re: PATCH: Add memory barrier to malloc

On Sat, May 03, 2003 at 01:30:00PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
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> H. J. Lu wrote:
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> > I should have waited a while. MEMORY_BARRIER is not available in nptl.
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> More importantly, you should have looked at what is already there.  See
> include/atomic.h.
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Are you proposing to remove locks from malloc or just use compare/swap
with locks? Removing locks sounds a good idea if it is feasible.


H.J.
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