I do like the atomic_inc, atomic_dec, etc being able to handle either
type. While producing code, I can do a simple check at the beginning of
the block and define the appropriate type for a particular architecture.
For instance:
#if ARCH_WORD_SIZE == 8
atomic64_t my_atomic;
#else
atomic_t my_atomic;
#endif
Without it, I end up doing alot of other magic. I don't see a problem
with having the #defines versus the inlines. Why have two chunks of code
which do exactly the same operations with only type differences?
Robin Holt
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