> It protects against signals handlers, interrupts and other processes.
> But on SMP, "addl" is not atomic. You have to use "lock; addl" on SMP.
I seem to recall that you can use the "xaddl" for atomic addition without
the "lock" prefix... only on 486 and later though...
Adam
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