-The contents of memory at the location specified by the '``<pointer>``'
-operand is read and compared to '``<cmp>``'; if the read value is the
-equal, '``<new>``' is written. The original value at the location is
-returned.
+The contents of memory at the location specified by the '``<pointer>``' operand
+is read and compared to '``<cmp>``'; if the read value is the equal, the
+'``<new>``' is written. The original value at the location is returned, together
+with a flag indicating success (true) or failure (false).
+
+If the cmpxchg operation is marked as ``weak`` then a spurious failure is
+permitted: the operation may not write ``<new>`` even if the comparison
+matched.
+
+If the cmpxchg operation is strong (the default), the i1 value is 1 if and only
+if the value loaded equals ``cmp``.