On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 01:40 -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > What was the point of this again? Was it that these two operations are > used so commonly together that its worth having a special type for them, > or is there some correctness issue here? > > It seems to me that having it adds a fair amount of fiddley complexity, > and it doesn't gain very much because patching will make each operation > individually fairly efficient. Yes, the combo was *so* common we went for one patch site rather than two. Rusty.