Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:25:53 +0200 (CEST) | From | Roman Zippel <> | Subject | Re: so what's so special about sema_init() for alpha? |
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Hi,
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> i'm still curious as to why the implementation for sema_init() for > the alpha can't be simplified as (allegedly) could all of the other > architecture sema_init() calls.
Did you even look at the code it generates? It's not specific to alpha at all. Unless the structure is small enough, gcc will first generate a copy on the stack and then copy it to its final location.
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