Re: spinlock

Marc Lehmann (pcg@opengroup.org)
Mon, 29 Nov 1999 00:57:48 +0100

On Sat, Nov 27, 1999 at 10:10:10PM +0100, Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> wrote:
> We should not do such tricks. gcc 2.95 may not be clever enough, but

I'd say it is plain impossible on x86 to save 100 words in registers ;->

> gcc 3.05? egcs people are doing subtle tricks, and we should be very

gcc people, yes. But I think the kernel developers can sleep safely. If
gcc-3 or any later version breaks this trick then we need most probably
another tricks (well "we" is wrong here as well, but..)

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