* Robert Haas:
> and (c) architectures (like 32-bit x86) where ordinary 64-bit
> operations aren't atomic but special instructions (cmpxchg8b) can be
> used to get that behavior.
FILD and FIST are atomic, too, and are supported by more
micro-architectures.
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