Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Aug 2007 23:38:00 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently across all architectures |
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On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 06:51:16PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:16:43 PDT, "Paul E. McKenney" said: > > > I agree that instant gratification is hard to come by when synching > > up compiler and kernel versions. Nonetheless, it should be possible > > to create APIs that are are conditioned on the compiler version. > > We've tried that, sort of. See the mess surrounding the whole > extern/static/inline/__whatever boondogle, which seems to have > changed semantics in every single gcc release since 2.95 or so. >...
There is exactly one semantics change in gcc in this area, and that is the change of the "extern inline" semantics in gcc 4.3 to the C99 semantics.
cu Adrian
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