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Re: [parisc-linux] 2.4.20-pa27 64bits smp problem!
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: "John David Anglin" <dave at hiauly1 dot hia dot nrc dot ca>
- Cc: willy at debian dot org (Matthew Wilcox), parisc-linux at parisc-linux dot org,gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 22:48:20 +0100
- Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] 2.4.20-pa27 64bits smp problem!
- References: <200302262113.h1QLDC05020030@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>
"John David Anglin" <dave at hiauly1 dot hia dot nrc dot ca> writes:
|> > I think it was an error to do so. I do not see how
|> >
|> > (spinlock_t) { 1 }
|> >
|> > is any more or less constant than
|> >
|> > { 1 }
|> >
|> > Removing this extension is a bad idea because it removes the ability to
|> > do typechecking. For example,
|> >
|> > rwlock_t lock = SPIN_LOCK_INIT;
|> >
|> > would throw an error with a cast and not without.
|>
|> GCC allows the above cast.
This is not a cast, it's a compound literal.
Andreas.
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