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Re: [PATCH 07/15] Add the low level infrastructure for pthreads lock elision with TSX
Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx> writes:
>
> This kind of non-conformant behavior makes it unacceptable for elision
> to be enabled by default.
There's nothing non-conformant in lock elision as far as I know,
all behavior is within POSIX semantics (i.e. within undefinedness)
> Is there any way around it?
Generally no (except for the cases I mentioned)
Is there anything that worries you particularly, as in do you
have a real program that would be affected by any of this?
-Andi
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