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From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: Size and pack
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Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) wrote in message news:<X7Zq0LolyKes@eisner.encompasserve.org>...
> That would seem to indicate that depending on the VMS fixups would not
> be allowed with pragma Atomic either.  

That would be fine if the fixup routine runs in a non-preemptible
manner. There is no requirement that Atomic
generate a single instruction (a conforming implementation
could even take an OS lock to implement Atomic, though this
is certainly not an intended implementation approach).