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From: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: futex wait failure
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:24:53 +0100
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On 01/04/2010 05:27 PM, Helge Deller wrote:
> If my assumptions are correct, then we either could
>
> a) use the gcc atomic builtins instead of own atomic code in libc6:
> E.g: add to ports/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:
> ...
> #if __GNUC_PREREQ (4, 1)
> # define atomic_compare_and_exchange_val_acq(mem, newval, oldval) \
>    __sync_val_compare_and_swap (mem, oldval, newval)
> #  define atomic_compare_and_exchange_bool_acq(mem, newval, oldval) \
>    (! __sync_bool_compare_and_swap (mem, oldval, newval))
>
> #elif __ASSUME_LWS_CAS
> ....


Even with this change, minifail sadly still segfaults :-(

Helge