[fpc-devel] Threading support and C library under Linux/Unix

Hans-Peter Diettrich DrDiettrich1 at aol.com
Wed Jun 23 22:15:50 CEST 2010


Michael Schnell schrieb:

>>From some ARM manual:
> 
>     The ARM7500FE does not use the lock feature available in the ARM701
> macrocell
>     You must take care to ensure that control of the memory is not
> removed from the ARM
>     processor while it is performing this instruction.

This seems to apply only to systems with multiple processors, and 
perhaps with DMA controllers. Who else could obtain control of the 
memory? And who would build a multi-processor system with that 
inappropriate processor?

But sh*t happens, of course ;-)

DoDi





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