Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 14:27:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 14:27:13 -0400 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:16486 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 14:27:05 -0400 Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 20:27:34 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Jeff Dike , user-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jan Hubicka Subject: Re: user-mode port 0.44-2.4.7 Message-ID: <20010723202734.C16919@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: <20010723195055.A16919@athlon.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from torvalds@transmeta.com on Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 11:11:25AM -0700 X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-kernel-outgoing On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 11:11:25AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Now, the change of algorithm might be something like > > /* > * We need to get _one_ value here, because our > * state machine .... > */ gcc can assume 'state' stays constant in memory not just during the 'case'. > The C standard doesn't say crap about volatile. It leaves it up to the > compiler to do something about it. The C folks definitely say it is a kernel bug if you don't apply my patch and I agree with them. Ask Jan. Andrea - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/