Re: user-mode port 0.44-2.4.7

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Wed Jul 25 2001 - 18:16:32 EST


On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
> I will if Honza assures me that no future version of gcc will cause me to
> crash if I don't declare xtime volatile and I play with it while it can
> change under me (which seems not the case from his last email).

WHY DO YOU NOT ADD THE "VOLATILE" TO THE PLACES THAT _CARE_?

This is not a gcc issue. Even if gcc _were_ to generate bad code, the
global volatile _still_ wouldn't be the correct answer.

                Linus

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