On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 5:16 PM, Torvald Riegel <triegel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > (a) seems to say that you don't like requiring programmers to mark > atomic accesses specially. Is that the case? In Paul's example, they were marked specially. And you seemed to argue that Paul's example could possibly return anything but 0/0. If you really think that, I hope to God that you have nothing to do with the C standard or any actual compiler I ever use. Because such a standard or compiler would be shit. It's sadly not too uncommon. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html