[pypy-dev] Easy way to get access to cmpxchg?

[Ryan Gonzalez]

Well, I know that Python uses references, so that wouldn't be possible in
normal Python code without using stack inspection.

In RPython, which restricts all of that, it'd have to be another translator
feature that uses magic to get things done.


On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Timothy Baldridge <tbaldridge at gmail.com>wrote:

> It'd be nice to be able to do something like this in rpython:
>
> compare_and_swap(foo.bar, oldval, newval)
>
> Or basically the cmpxchg. How hard would it be to get this in?
>
> Timothy
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