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To: Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improve atomic.h implementation robustness
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From: Richard Sandiford <rsandifo@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 19:28:35 +0000
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 Seufer's message of "Tue, 7 Dec 2004 13:56:59 +0100")
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Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> writes:
> I tried to use "R" in atomic.h but this failed in some (but not all)
> cases with
>
> include/asm/atomic.h:64: error: inconsistent operand constraints in an asm'
>
> where the argument happens to be a member of a global struct.

Doh!  Do you have any testcases handy?  Was it failing with >= 3.4,
or with older toolchains?  3.4 and above should know that 'R' is a
memory-type constraint.

Richard