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Re: locking problem with mips atomicity

On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 15:22, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 02:44:15PM -0800, Michael Eager wrote:
> > Well, that's surprising.  I was able to get rid of all of the 
> > other changes. 
> 
> Not ok.  It's not *required* that the compiler reduce all of the
> addresses for you.  In particular, this is more likely to fail
> without optimization.
> 
> > -       : "m" (*__mem), "r"(__val));
> > +       : "m" (*__mem), "r"(__val), "r"(__mem));
> 
> In addition to just adding the new argument, you have to actually
> use it in the assembly.

*shakes head*

I think i'm going to give up for today.

Thanks richard.

-eric

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Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com>
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