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Re: ARM: enable interpreter, add locks code

On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 02:08:23PM +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
> Quite.  There are many things that we can worry about, but I'm quite
> happy to wait for this to be fixed by the LinuxThreads people.

It won't be, unfortunately.  LinuxThreads is dead and will not be
fixed.  NPTL, the replacement, gets to assume a sufficiently new
kernel version that it can call into the kernel for atomic operations
(there are helper functions at a magic location since around 2.6.15).

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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