"Maciej W. Rozycki" wrote: > > On Tue, 29 May 2001, Jun Sun wrote: > > > I think system V requires _test_and_set() being included in the libsys dynamic > > library. Does Linux want to be sysv compatible? If so, we should removed the > > inlined _test_and_set(). > > Why should we remove the inlined _test_and_set()? We do have a number of > other inlined functions in glibc, e.g. memcpy() and friends in > <bits/string.h> (not for MIPS, actually, but for other hosts), yet it does > not make glibc SVR4 incompatible. Of course we always provide non-inlined > versions of such functions as well -- check with objdump if unsure. > Hmm, I think to write SYSV compatible code one should not used inlined ABI calls. Otherwise the binary would bypass libsys and becomes not portable among SYSV machines. On the other hand, what other MIPS SYSV platforms are there for us to be compatible? IRIX? :-) > Note they are *extern* inline. > I don't think "extern" changes the picture here because once the call is inlined the code will bypass libsys - unless my previous understanding is wrong. Jun
