Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 8 Jul 2006 05:45:56 -0400 | From | Joe Korty <> | Subject | Re: [patch] spinlocks: remove 'volatile' |
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On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 11:54:10PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: > That's all theoretical though. Today, gcc's volatile does > not follow the C standard on modern hardware. Bummer. > It'd be low-performance anyway though.
But gcc would follow the standard if it emitted a 'lock' insn on every volatile reference. It should at least have an option to do that.
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