Re: Great(?) idea [was: Re: [Sablevm-developer] Porting SableVM to ia64 done in 3 (lazy) hours]

[Etienne M. G. <eti...@uq...>]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 09:28:22PM +0200, Grzegorz Prokopski wrote:
> The question is mainly to Etienne...
> 
> Instead of doing 
> 
> static inline jboolean
> _svmh_compare_and_swap (volatile _svmt_word *pword, _svmt_word
> old_value,
...
> why not just use this construction:
> 
> #include <asm/system.h>
>       return (cmpxchg((pword), (old_value), (new_value)) == (old_value))
...

> We could have all Linux arches supported in 24 hours! ;-)
> Why shouldn't we use it?

As long as we add a "#ifdef LINUX" (or the equivalent), we could do it.

Is there an equivalent for "iflush()"?  Then we would get the
inline-threaded engine to work too... :)

Etienne


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