Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 9 Jul 2006 08:27:15 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [patch] spinlocks: remove 'volatile' |
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On Sun, 9 Jul 2006, Roman Zippel wrote: > > On Sat, 8 Jul 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > but we've been using that "+m" format for a long time already (and I > > _think_ we did so at the suggestion of gcc people), and it would be much > > better if the gcc documentation was just fixed here. > > IIRC early 4.0 had problems with "+m" and did what the documentation says, > but that got quickly fixed. > Here is the old thread http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=108384517900001&r=1&w=2
Thanks. That one implies that we had some strange warnings (but it apparently still worked) with 3.4, and it's since gotten fixed. Goodie.
I'll leave the "+m" alone then, both the old and the new ones.
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