gcc 4.1 implements compiler builtins for atomic ops

Denis Vlasenko vda@ilport.com.ua
Mon Jun 27 12:22:00 GMT 2005


On Monday 27 June 2005 03:27, David S. Miller wrote:
> We shouldn't put this into the compiler, for the same reason that we
> don't expose FILE layout internals in the glibc header files that
> applications make use of just to make getc()/putc() a few cycles
> faster.

IIRC perl does exactly that (i.e. it messes up with FILE internals).

Already has bitten uclibc folks.
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