Re: Alpha Avanti broken by 9ce8654323d69273b4977f76f11c9e2d345ab130

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On 8/20/2018 5:50 PM, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
That is that the caller must not
assume that writes issued by `writeX' calls will be observed in order on
the external bus or specifically by the device addressed.

Where do you see it?

I interpret that two writeX() need to be observed in order with respect
to each other without requiring an explicit barrier. Same goes for reads.

Hardware can reshuffle things on flight for performance but observability is the critical piece here for correctness.



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