Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S937317AbXHLSA0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Aug 2007 14:00:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1764275AbXHLSAJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Aug 2007 14:00:09 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:55876 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751781AbXHLSAG (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Aug 2007 14:00:06 -0400 Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 10:59:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Segher Boessenkool cc: wjiang@resilience.com, wensong@linux-vs.org, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de, cfriesen@nortel.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, horms@verge.net.au, akpm@linux-foundation.org, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, Chuck Ebbert , davem@davemloft.net, zlynx@acm.org, Chris Snook Subject: Re: [PATCH] make atomic_t volatile on all architectures In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20070808230733.GA17270@shell.boston.redhat.com> <46BAC2BE.1090106@redhat.com> <46BB508B.7050601@redhat.com> <1186683646.9669.20.camel@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 744 Lines: 25 On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, Segher Boessenkool wrote: > > It works _most of the time_. It used to have problems. Gcc has had problems in various areas. > Ask Martin. Oh you don't even have to, > he told you two mails ago. My last mail simply pointed out that this > isn't a GCC bug, but merely documented behaviour. It was *not* documented behaviour, and there were gcc people who actively *encouraged* use of "+m", and actually fixed gcc. The documentation is buggy. Live with it. Linus - 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/