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Date:      Tue, 1 Jun 2004 13:32:25 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
Cc:        Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sparc64/include atomic.h
Message-ID:  <200406011332.25152.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10405281500370.26051-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com>
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.10.10405281500370.26051-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com>

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On Friday 28 May 2004 03:02 pm, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> On Fri, 28 May 2004, Scott Long wrote:
> > John Baldwin wrote:
> > > On Friday 28 May 2004 04:38 am, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> > >>On Fri, 28 May 2004, Mike Makonnen wrote:
> > >>>Thanks. I'll change those enums to integers soon (others have
> > >>> suggested it as well). It's just that I find them so convenient when
> > >>> debugging.
> > >>
> > >>And the use of atomic_cmpset_foo() isn't going to work on
> > >>80386 since it doesn't have cmpxchgl.  <machine/atomic.h>
> > >>will try to use cli instead.
> > >
> > > I'd say just punt and suggest that 80386 machines use libc_r.
> >
> > I think that this is a reasonable suggestion.  libc_r likely has a
> > longer lifespan than 80386 at this point (hard to believe that the
> > 80386 has been out for nearly 20 years!).
>
> Works for me.  That makes it easier for libpthread as well since
> we'd like to use it also.  We avoided using it and used atomic
> swaps instead.

By all means, please feel free to use atomic_cmpset() in libpthread.

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