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Re: Using __kuser_cmpxchg

From: David Daney <ddaney at avtrex dot com>
To: Andrew Haley <aph-gcc at littlepinkcloud dot COM>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico at cam dot org>, Paul Brook <paul at codesourcery dot com>, java at gcc dot gnu dot org, linux-arm-kernel at lists dot arm dot linux dot org dot uk
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:33:19 -0800
Subject: Re: Using __kuser_cmpxchg
References: <200711151759.lAFHxKa4027497@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0711151326510.21255@xanadu.home> <18236.39235.500965.810488@zebedee.pink> <473C9A6B.9080406@avtrex.com> <18236.40178.870108.828040@zebedee.pink>

Andrew Haley wrote:

David Daney writes: > > Am I missing something here? > > Is it really impossible to implement compare_and_swap on these ARM > platforms?

No, but it is exceedingly difficult to do it *efficiently*.

Right, I think you told me that once before.

I forget, is the arm-linuxeabi port of libgcj currently sacrificing correctness for speed?

David Daney

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