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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Robert Dewar's great article about the Strengths of Ada over
 other langauges in multiprocessing!
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"Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen"
<ole-hjalmar.kristensen@substitute_employer_here.com> wrote in message
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> On the other hand, I cannot see any reason why Annex C just couldn't
> say that intrinsic subprograms for compare-amd-swap and similar
> machine operations shall be provided *if* they are available on a
platform.
> That would at least save me the work of writing the bindings myself.

It does, actually. See C.1(11-16). It's "only" Implementation Advice, but
that is necessary in any case, because the Standard can't require something
it can't define.

A more interesting question is whether implementations follow that advice
(in any useful manner).

                                Randy.