Hi Raymie,
I'd like to understand more about the type of reordering operations you're
describing, and I assume I'm probably not the only one on the list who'd be
interested. Can you reference any online documentation or articles which
describe how this works? Or, alternatively, supply a more detailed description
yourself?
It's very counter-intuitive for me to hear about a processor that can apparently
reorder operations to load data referenced off a pointer before it loads the
pointer, if I understand your remarks properly.
- Dennis
Raymie Stata wrote:
>
> In response to Bill's posting I can say that the Alpha _does_ do the kind
> of "aggressive" reordering that would make this idiom difficult to
> implement. (Although I'm not a SPARC expert, a friend says the only thing
> that saves SPARC/RMO is that they have special rules regarding the ordering
> of dependent loads, rules the Alpha does not have.)
>
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