Re: [PATCH] (28/43) alpha xchg fix

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Aug 24 2005 - 02:36:01 EST


On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 10:47:07PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> alpha xchg has to be a macro - alpha disables always_inline and if that
> puppy does not get inlined, we immediately blow up on undefined reference.
> Happens even on gcc3; with gcc4 that happens a _lot_.

I think you should rather fix alpha to not disable always_inline. Having
one architecture behaving very different from the others is a rather bad
idea.

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