From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@karaya.com>,
<user-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: user-mode port 0.44-2.4.7
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 09:33:28 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107230931590.12978-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010723175635.L822@athlon.random>
On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
> in my tree I did some further cleanup, here the ones that you can
> interested about:
Andrea, please drop the "volatile" from xtime. It's bogus.
There's no reason why gcc couldn't make one or many accesses to that
variable, and volatile is an evil keyword that is badly specified and only
makes the compiler generate worse code without ever fixing any real bugs.
If you need a stable value, use a lock.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-23 16:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-23 5:08 user-mode port 0.44-2.4.7 Jeff Dike
2001-07-23 15:56 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-07-23 15:59 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-07-23 16:17 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-07-23 16:51 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-07-23 16:33 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2001-07-23 16:45 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-07-23 17:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-23 17:50 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-07-23 18:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-23 18:27 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-07-23 20:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-23 20:15 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-07-23 22:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-24 3:45 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-07-24 15:41 ` Davide Libenzi
2001-07-24 15:46 ` Alexander Viro
2001-07-24 16:01 ` Davide Libenzi
2001-07-24 16:08 ` Alexander Viro
2001-07-24 16:52 ` Davide Libenzi
2001-07-24 16:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-24 17:31 ` Davide Libenzi
2001-07-24 17:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-24 18:07 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-07-23 20:44 ` Chris Friesen
2001-07-23 21:11 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-07-23 21:50 ` Richard Gooch
2001-07-23 22:09 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-07-23 13:20 ` Rob Landley
2001-07-23 22:27 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-07-23 17:50 ` Rob Landley
2001-07-23 23:47 ` Richard Gooch
2001-07-24 0:04 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-07-24 9:02 ` Jan Hubicka
2001-07-24 15:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-24 16:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-25 22:49 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-07-25 23:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-25 23:37 ` Chris Friesen
2001-07-26 18:28 ` Jan Hubicka
2001-07-26 18:35 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-23 22:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-23 23:13 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-23 20:25 ` Jeff Dike
[not found] <no.id>
2001-07-23 20:57 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-23 21:14 ` Chris Friesen
2001-07-25 19:12 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-25 23:49 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-25 19:03 James W. Lake
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=Pine.LNX.4.33.0107230931590.12978-100000@penguin.transmeta.com \
--to=torvalds@transmeta.com \
--cc=andrea@suse.de \
--cc=jdike@karaya.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=user-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).