On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Chen, Kenneth W wrote: > > It precise the uncleanness in ia64 that such semantics are attached to > > these bit operations which may lead people to depend on those. We need to > > either make these explicit or not depend on them. > > I know, I'm saying since it doesn't make any difference from API point of > view whether it is acq, rel, or no ordering, then just make them rel as a > "preferred" Operation on ia64. That would make the behavior of clear_bit different from other bitops and references to volatile pointers. I'd like to have this as consistent as possible. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Fri Mar 31 11:52:02 2006
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