From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: so what's so special about sema_init() for alpha?
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:25:53 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610271323020.6762@scrub.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610242150460.28319@localhost.localdomain>
Hi,
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> i'm still curious as to why the implementation for sema_init() for
> the alpha can't be simplified as (allegedly) could all of the other
> architecture sema_init() calls.
Did you even look at the code it generates? It's not specific to alpha
at all. Unless the structure is small enough, gcc will first generate a
copy on the stack and then copy it to its final location.
bye, Roman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-27 11:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-25 1:54 Robert P. J. Day
2006-10-27 11:25 ` Roman Zippel [this message]
2006-10-27 11:42 ` Robert P. J. Day
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