Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 14:07:54 -0600 From: Chuck Paterson <cp@bsdi.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein), msmith@freebsd.org (Mike Smith), arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: we need atomic_t Message-ID: <200010122007.OAA18121@berserker.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 12 Oct 2000 19:39:23 -0000." <200010121939.MAA03665@usr09.primenet.com>
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Lets say its not a counter, but something that gets bits or'd into it. Seems that it better be big enough to hold the bit that is going to be or'd in? We have to worry about this today, I don't see this changing just because we declare it atomic. Chuck To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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