[concurrency-interest] Semantics of compareAndSwapX

[Paul Sandoz]

On Feb 20, 2014, at 10:48 AM, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> So it really boils down to the semantics of Unsafe.CAS and that was
>> what you were asking earlier.
> 
> OK, thanks.  Thought so.
> 
> So, Back to you, Doug: what are the semantics of Unsafe.CAS ?
> 

Perhaps it would help to look at the implementation?

See method inline_unsafe_load_store in:

  http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/hotspot/file/tip/src/share/vm/opto/library_call.cpp

Paul.

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