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SubjectRe: [PATCH] ia64: Depend on non-static printk for cmpxchg debug
Chris Down writes:
>I must confess I have no idea of the history of why it was `extern
>int` in the first place -- my fear was somehow we use cmpxchg.h from a
>different context. Do you have any idea? :-)

Ok, found where it's introduced in the pre-git archives: "New file
asm-ia64/intrinsics.h." from David Mosberger <davidm@tiger.hpl.hp.com>, Dec 9
2002. No indication why it's extern, but it's been there since the dawn of
ia64.

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