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From: linus.ml.walleij@gmail.com (Linus Walleij)
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:02:12 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: Add SWP/SWPB emulation for ARMv7 processors (v6)
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2010/7/19 Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>:

> Why do we need this? Why do not just fix broken programs?

People tend to use some third-party precompiled binaries, some of
them compiled with a compiler using SWP.

A typical example is the CDC Java runtime, JRE.

Yours,
Linus Walleij