cvs commit: src/sys/sparc64/include atomic.h

[Scott Long]

John Baldwin wrote:
> On Friday 28 May 2004 04:38 am, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, 28 May 2004, Mike Makonnen wrote:
>>
>>>On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 02:58:06AM +0200, Marius Strobl wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 05:52:16PM -0700, Marius Strobl wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>marius      2004/05/21 17:52:16 PDT
>>>>>
>>>>>  FreeBSD src repository
>>>>>
>>>>>  Modified files:
>>>>>    sys/sparc64/include  atomic.h
>>>>>  Log:
>>>>>  Use unsigned types for the arguments of the atomic(9) operations,
>>>>>  like described in the man page and done on all other architectures.
>>>>
>>>>This fixes the current build problems of libthr on sparc64 but the
>>>>libthr code shouldn't rely on the integer-type of enums.
>>>
>>>Thanks. I'll change those enums to integers soon (others have suggested
>>>it as well). It's just that I find them so convenient when debugging.
>>
>>And the use of atomic_cmpset_foo() isn't going to work on
>>80386 since it doesn't have cmpxchgl.  <machine/atomic.h>
>>will try to use cli instead.
> 
> 
> I'd say just punt and suggest that 80386 machines use libc_r.
> 

I think that this is a reasonable suggestion.  libc_r likely has a
longer lifespan than 80386 at this point (hard to believe that the
80386 has been out for nearly 20 years!).

Scott