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Re: [PATCH] [BZ 18034] [AArch64] Lazy TLSDESC relocation data race fix


On May 26, 2015, Torvald Riegel <triegel@redhat.com> wrote:

> As a result, you can drop the volatile qualification I
> believe (I haven't checked, but it seems this was a pre-memory-model way
> to avoid compiler reordering

That's correct.  It was the only portable way available back then to
force stores and loads to take place in specific orders.

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