On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 11:07:28AM +1000, skaller wrote:

> > But, a reference in ocaml will always be in a block, which will always be
> > aligned. 
> 
> On what boundary?

> >  Even x86 will be atomic with a 32-bit transfer that is aligned.
> 
> But perhaps not a 64 bit one.

I would argue that on a machine with 64-bit addresses, you can assume that
64-bit, aligned loads and stores will be atomic.  There is just too much
code that wouldn't work.  Other assumptions are hard to make, though.

Dave