Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently across allarchitectures

From: Stefan Richter
Date: Wed Aug 15 2007 - 09:11:44 EST


I wrote:
> static inline void A(atomic_t *a)
> {
> int b = atomic_read(a);
> if (b)
> do_something_time_consuming();
> }
>
> static inline void B(atomic_t *a)
> {
> int b = atomic_read(a);
> if (b)
> do_something_more();
> }
>
> static void C(atomic_t *a)
> {
> A(a);
> B(b);
/* ^ typo */
B(a);
> }
>
> Would this need forget(a) after A(a)?
>
> (Is the latter actually answered in C99 or is it compiler-dependent?)


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Stefan Richter
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