Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 7 Sep 2000 17:51:59 -0700 | From | Richard Henderson <> | Subject | Re: spin_lock forgets to clobber memory and other smp fixes [was |
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On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 12:34:24AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > >No it's not. We know how big the dummy_lock structure is, and > >so might "know" that it doesn't overlap with something else. > > I guess Alexey point is that the current compiler doesn't notice that.
Perhaps. But that's not to say no future compiler won't.
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