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Re: Userspace RCU library relicensed to LGPLv2.1
- From: Jan Blunck <jblunck at suse dot de>
- To: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr at ioremap dot net>
- Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu dot desnoyers at polymtl dot ca>,ltt-dev at lists dot casi dot polymtl dot ca,"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>,steven dot bennett at us dot ibm dot com,tech-board <tech-board at lists dot linux-foundation dot org>,Robert Wisniewski <bob at watson dot ibm dot com>,Dominique Toupin <dominique dot toupin at ericsson dot com>,Jonathan Corbet <corbet at lwn dot net>, Jake Edge <jake at lwn dot net>,zbrown at tumblerings dot org, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 15:47:41 +0200
- Subject: Re: Userspace RCU library relicensed to LGPLv2.1
- References: <20090513204308.GA27340@Krystal> <20090514092738.GO17988@bolzano.suse.de> <20090514094920.GA1250@ioremap.net>
On Thu, May 14, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:27:38AM +0200, Jan Blunck (jblunck@suse.de) wrote:
> > Is there a specific reason why the atomic_ops implementation was used instead
> > of the atomic builtins that come with GCC? IIRC, they are implemented on all
> > architectures already.
>
> Only in 4.1+ versions.
>
We could add headers for the case that somebody really needs ancient compiler
support.
Regards,
Jan
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Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>