Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 02:19:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), cp@bsdi.com (Chuck Paterson), msmith@FreeBSD.ORG (Mike Smith), arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: we need atomic_t Message-ID: <200010130219.TAA03232@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <20001012142257.S272@fw.wintelcom.net> from "Alfred Perlstein" at Oct 12, 2000 02:22:57 PM
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[ ... atomic_t ... ] > My unspoken minimum precision was going to be 24 bits, for situations > where that wasn't enough the idea was to provide a atomic64_t, but > only if the demand was reasonable. How would you handle this type on 386, 486, and Pentium machines, if somone used it in code? Or would its use be limited to 64 bit architectures, instead of limiting FreeBSD to 64 bit (or higher) architectures? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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