Re: Memory ordering

Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:

aph@littlepinkcloud.invalid writes:

Yes. That Alpha behaviour was a historic error. No one wants to do
that again.

 
Was it an actual behaviour of any Alpha for public sale, or was it
just the Alpha specification?

I don't know. Given the contortions that the Linux kernel people had
to go through, maybe it really was present in hardware.

As a programming language implementer, I don't much think about "Will
the hardware really do this?" because new hardware arises all the
time, and I don't want users' programs to stop working.

Andrew.