Hi,
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> In ../linux/include/asm/atomic.h, for versions 2.4.18 and
> above as far as I've checked, there are repeated warnings
> "Note that the guaranteed useful range of an atomic_t is
> only 24 bits."
>
> I fail to see any reason why as atomic_t is typdefed to a
> volatile int which, on ix86 seems to be 32 bits.
>
> Does anybody know if this is just some old comments from a
> previous atomic_t type of, perhaps, char[3]?
include/asm-sparc/atomic.h
bye, Roman
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