der Mouse wrote:
> >> However some architectures (eg sparc) [...don't support that...]
> > Doesn't the Load-Link / Store Conditional allow exactly that?
> 
> I think you have the SPARC confused with some other architecture
> (PowerPC maybe? - I know I've seen those names but can't recall which
> architecture they go with).

Supposedly MIPS and Alpha.  (Though it's actually Load Locked on the latter.)


- Klaus