[PATCH] Update to new generic semaphore algorithm v2

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Thu Feb 7 16:08:00 GMT 2019


* Andreas Schwab:

> This has the effect that a semaphore that is shared between a x86-64 and
> a x86-32 process no longer yields the same value, because the latter
> does not define __HAVE_64B_ATOMICS.

Hasn't this been reported before?  I think we decided back then that it
wasn't a bug.  Other process-shared synchronization objects (mutexes,
condition variables) had the same problem from the start.

Do you have new information that would call for a re-evaluation of this
decision?

Thanks,
Florian



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