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To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/include atomic.h
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John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> writes:
> One reason for not having the casts, btw, is that you lose type
> checking.

Huh?  Before my patch, any use of atomic_*_ptr with warnings turned
off would result in a slew of warnings because you'd be passing
pointers to a function which is declared to take u_int.  The only way
to make this type safe is to use inline functions instead of the
macros I wrote.

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