[PATCH] Unify pthread_spin_[try]lock implementations.

Roland McGrath roland@hack.frob.com
Wed Aug 15 17:11:00 GMT 2012


> It seems to me that SPIN_LOCK_READS_BETWEEN_CMPXCHG may have the 
> property that varying it at runtime based on the characteristics of the 
> particular chip running the application might be worthwhile.

Nothing prevents a machine from defining the macro to use a global variable
that is set by some machine-specific initialization code.



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