Re: [patch] spinlocks: remove 'volatile'

Roman Zippel
2006-07-09T14:29:07Z

Hi,

On Sat, 8 Jul 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> but we've been using that "+m" format for a long time already (and I
> _think_ we did so at the suggestion of gcc people), and it would be much
> better if the gcc documentation was just fixed here.

IIRC early 4.0 had problems with "+m" and did what the documentation says,
but that got quickly fixed.
Here is the old thread http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=108384517900001&r=1&w=2

bye, Roman