spinlocks

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Wed Apr 25 23:56:00 GMT 2001


willy@ldl.fc.hp.com (Matthew Wilcox) writes:

> Why not?  It prevents people thinking they know what it is, assigning a
> value to it, and breaking hppa.  Perhaps people will not do that anyway
> if the type is not `int', but I don't see that it costs anything.

I'm not 100% sure that the compiler is generating exactly the same
code.  Unless this can be assured I won't take a risk.  Yes, I know
this can potentially break PA but you will compile glibc anyway every
day from now on, right? :-)

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