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Probably unnecessary InterlockedCompareExchangePointer in List_removein thread.h

From: Vaclav Haisman <V dot Haisman at sh dot cvut dot cz>
To: cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com
Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 17:03:36 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Probably unnecessary InterlockedCompareExchangePointer in List_removein thread.h

I think that the call to InterlockedCompareExchangePointer() can and should be
replaced by ordinary if and assignment. The synchronization it provides doesn't
seem to be necessary.

VH.


2005-05-29  Vaclav Haisman  <v.haisman@sh.cvut.cz>

	* thread.h (List_remove): Make node parameter const. Don't use
	InterlockedCompareExchangePointer.

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