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Date:	Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:55:54 +0100 (BST)
From:	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>
To:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: Looks broken to me: x86, cyrix: debug

On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, Willy Tarreau wrote:

> In fact the whole commit looks buggy to me as it simply reintroduces the
> old bug at several places. The correct way of accessing the registers is
> precisely through the inline functions and never through a macro due to
> the ordering problem.

 Well, with some GCC extensions macros can be written such that ordering 
is kept, but inline functions tend to be simpler and often more readable.

  Maciej
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