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RE: Lightweight C++ multithreaded exceptions


> From: Jonathan Larmour
>
> libstdc++ has atomicity primitives for some CPUs, including x86, m68k,
> mips, powerpc and SPARC. Notably it doesn't include ARM, probably because
> at least on some ARM architecture versions it isn't possible. I
> don't know
> for definite about recent ARM architecture versions.

ARM7 and later have a swap byte or word, which is locked.

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