You can modify any, all, or none of the bytes in a word loaded/stored with LL/SC. What you *can't* do is independently LL/SC individual bytes within the same memory word, but operationally, this is of little consequence. If you want to atomically modify a byte, you LL the word containing the byte, modify the byte in question, and SC the word. If the SC succeeds, all is as you wish. If the SC fails, you need to retry the whole sequence. ----- Original Message ----- From: "karthikeyan natarajan" <karthik_96cse@yahoo.com> To: <linux-mips@linux-mips.org> Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 10:09 Subject: Regarding the LL & SC instructions > Hi All, > > Seems that LL & SC instrutions operate on a 'word' > data. > Can we use the same instructions to do a atomic > increment on a 'byte' data. If not, are there any > specific instructions to operate on a byte data? > (Like, LLD & SCD for doubleword data) or else, any > method to achieve this using the LL & SC instr? > > Thanks much, > -karthi > > > ===== > The expert at anything was once a beginner > > ________________________________________________________________________ > Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" > your friends today! Download Messenger Now > http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html > >
