On Nov 14, 2012, at 12:01 PM, Sean Kelly <s...@invisibleduck.org> wrote:
> On Nov 14, 2012, at 6:32 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu
> <seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote:
>>
>> This is a simplification of what should be going on. The
>> core.atomic.{atomicLoad, atomicStore} functions must be intrinsics so the
>> compiler generate sequentially consistent code with them (i.e. not perform
>> certain reorderings). Then there are loads and stores with weaker
>> consistency semantics (acquire, release, acquire/release, and consume).
>
> No. These functions all contain volatile ask blocks. If the compiler
> respected the "volatile" it would be enough.
asm blocks. Darn auto-correct.
