On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 08:54:12PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: > My favourit would be to let the glibc on runtime decide whether > to use sysmips or ll/sc in the atomic test_and_set stuff. This would > lead to an common atom op in the userspace which is fast on ll/sc > cpus and gives much lesser performance penaltys in the sysmips case > than emulating ll/sc. But again - I tried to run this discussion again and again - As long as there is no code to use there is no point in taking a discussion. I needed a working sysmips for debian as we compile the glibc with sysmips (performance penalty but for now works everywhere) thus i fixed the sysmips. Let the code speak Flo -- Florian Lohoff flo@rfc822.org +49-5201-669912 Why is it called "common sense" when nobody seems to have any?