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Re: [PATCH 3/3] rs6000: Rewrite sync patterns for atomic; expand early.
On 2012-06-11 18:40, David Edelsohn wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> wrote:
>
>> Nope. I do see the obvious mistake in the atomic_load pattern though:
>> The mode iterator should have been INT1 not INT.
>
> Did you want to commit the fix for the iterator?
Yes. I'm just finishing testing that patch in fact.
> I like your suggestion, but the PowerPC developer community does not
> uniformly appreciate that behavior.
Surely there's a difference between gratuitously using fp registers
and that being the *only* way to implement a particular operation...
r~