On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 08:26:51AM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> 
> On Mar 13, 2007, at 8:18 AM, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
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> >On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 08:16:10AM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> >
> >>Oh, and dunno... m68k called it "compare-and-set" long before Solaris
> >>called it "compare-and-swap"
> >
> >I was pretty sure until you wrote that (but have my books at home)
> >that CAS is compare and swap.
> 
> Hm, if it is compare-and-swap, then great... but I thought it was  
> compare-and-set.  Anyway, if you could double-check for me, that would  
> be great -- m68k is one of the platforms I was thinking of when I went  
> with "compare-and-store"

cas is "compare and swap" from Solaris Internals, second edition, page
820.

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