Re: [boost] Shared pointer atomic assembler for ARM?

From: Gottlob Frege (gottlobfrege_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-06 10:40:10

On 9/5/07, Peter Dimov <pdimov_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> To answer your question: no, a mere swap instruction is not enough for
> shared_ptr, it needs atomic increment, decrement and compare and swap.
>

Of course, incr and decr can be built from CAS.

Tony