[llvm-dev] RFC: Add atomic versions of the llvm.memcpy, llvm.memmove and llvm.memset intrinsics

[Joerg Sonnenberger via llvm-dev]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 02:13:26PM +0000, Igor Laevsky via llvm-dev wrote:
> LLVM's memory intrinsics are quite useful for performing various optimizations
> with frequently used memory operations. Unfortunately this intrinsics are not applicable for
> languages with guaranteed atomicity for their memory accesses (like Java for example).

At the very least, it is a extremely bad name. The operation is not
atomic at all, it is piecewise at most. I don't see how this is any
better than just using an explicit loop, given that any lowering is
highly unlikely to be able to do anything different.

Joerg