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Re: [COMMITTED PATCH] Separate Linuxisms from lowlevellock.h, make a generic one
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- To: Bernie Ogden <bernie dot ogden at linaro dot org>
- Cc: "GNU C. Library" <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 09:45:03 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: [COMMITTED PATCH] Separate Linuxisms from lowlevellock.h, make a generic one
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> There is only zero semantic/minimal codegen effect for those machines
> currently affected by BZ#16892 - those being m68k, aarch64, arm and
> sh/sh4. So perhaps the thing to do is have those machines switch
> first, confirm the effect is as expected and then fix the bug before
> switching the others.
That seems reasonble. But of course it is up to each machine maintainer.