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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently on alpha
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On Friday 10 August 2007 10:21:46 Herbert Xu wrote:
> Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> > The compiler is within its rights to read a 32-bit quantity 16 bits at
> > at time, even on a 32-bit machine. I would be glad to help pummel any
> > compiler writer that pulls such a dirty trick, but the C standard really
> > does permit this.
>
> Code all over the kernel assumes that 32-bit reads/writes
> are atomic so while such a compiler might be legal it certainly
> can't compile Linux.

Yes, the kernel requirements are much stricter than ISO-C. And besides
it is a heavy user of C extensions anyways. On the other hand some of the
C99 extensions are not allowed. And then there is sparse, which enforces
a language which sometimes is quite far from standard C. You could say it is
written in Linux-C, not ISO C.

-Andi
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