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Date:      Fri, 17 May 2002 11:20:40 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        obrien@FreeBSD.org, alpha@FreeBSD.org, Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net>, Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>, Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>
Subject:   Re: gcc3 & alpha kernels
Message-ID:  <15589.8136.958487.689590@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20020516230644.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <15587.55941.487432.408302@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <XFMail.20020516230644.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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John Baldwin writes:
 > 
 > Does it work fine if you back out my hack to alpha/include/atomic.h where
 > I commented out the zapnot in atomic_cmpset_32()?

Nope.  It still hangs on boot with the zapnot in place.

Am I confused, or is it just plain wrong to blindly zap the high bits?
Won't that always make the comparison fail for large unsigned values
that GCC didn't mess up on? (eg, *p = 0xffffffff).


Drew

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