* Juhana Helovuo:

> Package: bind9
> Version: 1:9.5.0.dfsg.P2-5.1
> Followup-For: Bug #512285
>
>
> The cause of this bug (#512285) seems to be bug in the implementation of 
> atomic operations for the Alpha processor. Some of the parameters to the 
> inline assembly operations are specified to be write-only (results), 
> when they are in fact used in a read-write fashion. This causes the 
> current gcc (4.2.4) to allocate some of the parameters into the same 
> physical registers, causing unintentional aliasing.

Interesting, thanks.  Have you provided this information to upstream?

I suppose we could also use the __sync_* primitives, or libatomic-ops.



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