Re: [patch] spinlocks: remove 'volatile'

[Roman Zippel]

Hi,

On Sat, 8 Jul 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> but we've been using that "+m" format for a long time already (and I 
> _think_ we did so at the suggestion of gcc people), and it would be much 
> better if the gcc documentation was just fixed here.

IIRC early 4.0 had problems with "+m" and did what the documentation says, 
but that got quickly fixed.
Here is the old thread http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=108384517900001&r=1&w=2

bye, Roman
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