Re: Build failure for R3000 DECstation

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>]

On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Jun Sun wrote:

> I gave more thoughts on this.  While your argument sounds plausible, the
> devil is in "retry" - without a lower-level atomic operation, you cannot
> "restore" the initial condition and conduct a re-try.

 You are right -- it's not that trivial, if at all possible (assuming O(1)
memory usage).

> Come up with a pseudo code to show I am wrong.

 I'm thinking -- I'll provide results if I invent something useful.

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