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From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 09:33:58 -0700

> I thought the concensurs here was that because doing reliable atomic
> updates of 64-bit values isn't possible on some (most?) 32-bit
> architectures so we need additional locking to make this work which is
> undesirable?  (It might even be a FAQ by now as this comes up fairly
> often).

That's correct.