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A memory operation's execution is conditional on a preceding value. A control dependency alone does not generally order two reads on POWER architecture or the relevant ARM memory models; it must not be substituted for an address dependency in pointer-publication reasoning.

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  • Past exam of the computer science course of the University of Oxford / 2015 / Computer architecture / 3 / c / iii / Solution
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