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Message-ID: <28709.1187736676@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date:	Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:51:16 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:	Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
	heiko.carstens@...ibm.com, horms@...ge.net.au,
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	satyam@...radead.org, zlynx@....org, schwidefsky@...ibm.com,
	Chris Snook <csnook@...hat.com>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>, davem@...emloft.net,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	wensong@...ux-vs.org, wjiang@...ilience.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently across all architectures

On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:16:43 PDT, "Paul E. McKenney" said:

> I agree that instant gratification is hard to come by when synching
> up compiler and kernel versions.  Nonetheless, it should be possible
> to create APIs that are are conditioned on the compiler version.

We've tried that, sort of.  See the mess surrounding the whole
extern/static/inline/__whatever boondogle, which seems to have
changed semantics in every single gcc release since 2.95 or so.

And recently mention was made that gcc4.4 will have *new* semantics
in this area. Yee. Hah.






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