Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 19:20:40 +0200 From: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, John Birrell <jb@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc_r/uthread uthread_gc.c Makefile.inc uthread_init.c uthread_find_thread.c uthread_kern.c uthread_create.c uthread_exit.c Message-ID: <19981001192040.A4637@gvr.org> In-Reply-To: <19981001092857.C7057@mcs.net>; from Alex Nash on Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 09:28:57AM -0500 References: <19980930192221.S9697@pr.mcs.net> <368.907228926@critter.freebsd.dk> <19981001092857.C7057@mcs.net>
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On Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 09:28:57AM -0500, Alex Nash wrote: > On Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 10:02:06AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > Alex, can we constrain ourselves to >actual< problems rather than > > theoretically-possible-on-really-stupid-machines-problems ? > > The atomicity of malloc_active++ is compiler dependent, not > really-stupid-machine dependent. > On sun sparcs the ++ operations was not atomical (at leats not when I compiled it with gcc) -Guido
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