Is OSCompareAndSwap (Mac OS X) equivalent to CMPXCHG8B?
You can find the definition of the atomic functions in the OSAtomic.s file in the XNU source. For example, here's OSAtomicCompareAndSwapPtr for x86_64 in version 1486.2.11:
_OSCompareAndSwap64:
_OSCompareAndSwapPtr: #;oldValue, newValue, ptr
movq %rdi, %rax
lock
cmpxchgq %rsi, 0(%rdx) #; CAS (eax is an implicit operand)
sete %al #; did CAS succeed? (TZ=1)
movzbq %al, %rax #; clear out the high bytes
ret