Re: atomic64_t proposal

Robin Holt (holt@rmholt.homeip.net)
Wed, 28 Aug 2002 10:45:19 -0500 (CDT)


I do like the atomic_inc, atomic_dec, etc being able to handle either
type. While producing code, I can do a simple check at the beginning of
the block and define the appropriate type for a particular architecture.

For instance:

#if ARCH_WORD_SIZE == 8
atomic64_t my_atomic;
#else
atomic_t my_atomic;
#endif

Without it, I end up doing alot of other magic. I don't see a problem
with having the #defines versus the inlines. Why have two chunks of code
which do exactly the same operations with only type differences?

Robin Holt

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