Re: Strange asm generated by GCC...

On 12/19/24 20:02, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

On 12/19/2024 4:43 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

Why in the world would GCC use an XCHG instruction for the following code. The damn XCHG has an implied LOCK prefix! Yikes!
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https://godbolt.org/z/Thxchdcr8
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#include <atomic>
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int main()
{
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     std::atomic<unsigned long> m_state = 0;
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     m_state.store(std::memory_order_relaxed);

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 Strange to me that this even compiled at all. I clearly forgot to put in a value. aka:
 m_state.store(1, std::memory_order_release);
 Sorry about that. ;^o

The 2nd parameter has a default value, std::memory_order_cst.
Your 1st argument was a std::memory_order value which is an
integer value.  So basically
   m.state.store(std::memory_order_relaxed, std::memory_order_cst);