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SubjectRe: [PATCH 00/09] atomic.h : standardizing atomic primitives
* Andrew Morton (akpm@osdl.org) wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:15:45 -0500
> Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> wrote:
>
> > It mainly adds support for missing 64 bits cmpxchg and 64 bits atomic add
> > unless. Therefore, principally 64 bits architectures are targeted by these
> > patches. It also adds the complete list of atomic operations on the atomic_long
> > type.
>
> OK, I fixed eight separate compile errors in this patch series and
> now powerpc is being very ugly with a twisty maze of include dependencies.
>
> I'm giving up. Someone should publish a suite of cross-compilers for us
> so stuff like this doesn't need to happen.

Hi Andrew,

This seems to be caused by the fact that I use inline functions for
atomic_long_cmpxchg and atomic_long_xchg. I could simply use macros and
this problem would fade away.

I agree about the cross-compiler suite, it would be very useful here.

Mathieu

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