From owner-cvs-all Thu Oct 1 10:25:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA26056 for cvs-all-outgoing; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 10:25:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all) Received: from gvr.gvr.org (gvr.gvr.org [194.151.74.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA26018; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 10:25:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from guido@gvr.org) Received: (from guido@localhost) by gvr.gvr.org (8.8.8/8.8.5) id TAA04647; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 19:20:40 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19981001192040.A4637@gvr.org> Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 19:20:40 +0200 From: Guido van Rooij To: Poul-Henning Kamp , John Birrell , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc_r/uthread uthread_gc.c Makefile.inc uthread_init.c uthread_find_thread.c uthread_kern.c uthread_create.c uthread_exit.c References: <19980930192221.S9697@pr.mcs.net> <368.907228926@critter.freebsd.dk> <19981001092857.C7057@mcs.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.1i In-Reply-To: <19981001092857.C7057@mcs.net>; from Alex Nash on Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 09:28:57AM -0500 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 09:28:57AM -0500, Alex Nash wrote: > On Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 10:02:06AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > Alex, can we constrain ourselves to >actual< problems rather than > > theoretically-possible-on-really-stupid-machines-problems ? > > The atomicity of malloc_active++ is compiler dependent, not > really-stupid-machine dependent. > On sun sparcs the ++ operations was not atomical (at leats not when I compiled it with gcc) -Guido