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Date:      Sun, 11 Nov 2001 11:23:43 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        <current@FreeBSD.org>, Jim Bryant <kc5vdj@yahoo.com>
Subject:   Re: kernel won't build - atomic.c/atomic.h errors...
Message-ID:  <20011111111640.M22418-100000@delplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.011110135709.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, John Baldwin wrote:

> On 08-Nov-01 Bruce Evans wrote:
> > The i386 <machine/atomic.h> still uses archaic constraints for some
> > input-output operands ("0" for the first operand).  These never worked
> > right and if fact don't actually work for compiling this file without
> > optimization.
>
> Hmm, would you prefer this diff then, I've had it floating around for a while
> now but wasn't sure it was right:

Yes, it is right provided all the operand renumbering is right.  I suppose
it can't be checked simply by comparing all objects, because it sometimes
changes the register allocation?

There are a couple more "0"s in atomic_cmpset_int(), and many more in other
files (even in cpufunc.h).

Bruce


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