On 3/20/06, Robert Roessler <roessler@rftp.com> wrote:
>
> At the risk of being "irrelevant", I wanted to nail down exactly what
> assertion is being made here: are we talking about directly executing
> in assembly code the relevant x86[-64]/ppc/whatever instructions for
> "read-and-clear", or going through OS-dependent access routines like
> Windows' InterlockedExchange()?


We are talking of the assembly code.  See file byterun/signals_machdep.h,
which contains the corresponding macros.

Regards,
Markus

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