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my123today at 6:25 AM1 replyview on HN

XNU has this oddity: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu/blob/f6217f89...

Redacted from open source XNU, but exists in the closed source version


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omcnoetoday at 6:36 AM

Is it actually redacted, or just a leftover stub from a feature implemented in silicon instead of software? Isn't the x86 memory order compatibility done at hardware level?