On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 07:52:34PM -0800, Wayne Gowcher wrote: > The processor is an r4k and the application is being > compiled with mips2 switch, which I thought would > allow it to generate the ll/sc instructions natively > and not have to generate system calls to emulate it. > I am guessing this is because the pthread library I > have is from the sgi ftp site and it was compiled for > mips1 ?? > > If someone has any insight into how to get libpthread > to use ll/sc instructions instead of the mips system > call I would really appreciate hearing from them. Rebuild it with -mips2. The inline code in glibc is coded such that it'll automatically use ll/sc then. Ralf