On Tue, 29 May 2001, Jun Sun wrote:
> I think system V requires _test_and_set() being included in the libsys dynamic
> library. Does Linux want to be sysv compatible? If so, we should removed the
> inlined _test_and_set().
Why should we remove the inlined _test_and_set()? We do have a number of
other inlined functions in glibc, e.g. memcpy() and friends in
<bits/string.h> (not for MIPS, actually, but for other hosts), yet it does
not make glibc SVR4 incompatible. Of course we always provide non-inlined
versions of such functions as well -- check with objdump if unsure.
Note they are *extern* inline.
> The need for kernel emulated test_and_set() in 64bit kernel is not obvious
> yet, and hopefully will never come.
Agreed.
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