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Re: [PATCH 5/8] Move i486/pthread_spin_trylock.S to pthread_spin_trylock.S
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- To: Torvald Riegel <triegel at redhat dot com>
- Cc: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>, Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 14:11:51 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] Move i486/pthread_spin_trylock.S to pthread_spin_trylock.S
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> I don't disagree with that -- I simply hadn't paid attention to the
> wider set of changes, and moving the file around seemed like a good
> opportunity to try to get rid of custom asm.
It is indeed a good reminder to look at such files and think about removing
them. If you proposed patches to remove some such files right now, they
would probably get consensus very quickly.