cpstrnew branch (was Re: [fpc-devel] Freepascal 2.4.0rc1 released)

[Micha Nelissen]

Micha Nelissen wrote:
> Intel: system programming guide vol 3 section 8.1.1 says byte, word, 
> doubleword, quadword (since Pentium) are all atomic if they are 
> naturally aligned. (word = 16 bits) 8.1.2.2 notes that LOCK is also best 
> to be used on naturally aligned boundaries for 8/16/32/64 bit accesses 
> for best performance.

Hmm, note: it seems that intel's "movq" to move quadword (64bit) 
register (or load/store data) is usable only for XMM/MMX registers, not 
the regular registers? This would mean there is no atomic load/store for 
the native sized regular registers (rax, rcx, etc) in x86_64? Is this right?

Micha