[fpc-pascal] Getting the state of a TRTLCriticalSection

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Jonas Maebe wrote:
> On 07 Oct 2013, at 11:33, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> 
>> In our previous episode, Jonas Maebe said:
>>>> [interlocked increment/decrement]
>>> They do not include any memory barrier. The only thing those routines
>>> guarantee on all platforms, is that the value is atomically
>>> incremented/decremented.
>>
>> (btw that depends on which functions you mean, our own assembler versions
>> probably.
>>
>> The Windows
>> functions of the same name are guaranteed to have memory barriers afaik,
>> but do require alignment. (probably to avoid crosssing cache lines)
>> )
> 
> That's why I wrote "on all platforms". They also always require a native 
> alignment on all platforms, because those are cpu limitations for atomic 
> instructions.
> 
> 
> On 07 Oct 2013, at 11:40, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> 
>> Thanks Jonas, noted. For completeness, is there a way to force one?
> 
> See http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/system/readwritebarrier.html 
> and the pages linked from there.

Thanks for that, I mistakenly thought that the code generator was 
inserting implicit membars but I see from my notes relating to bug 23390 
that it's an RTL (>2.2.2) detail.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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