Bruce Evans wrote:
>
> On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, John Baldwin wrote:
>
> > On 14-Jan-01 Peter Jeremy wrote:
> > > And for BDE's benefit - atomic.h is broken for IA32's with 64-bit
> > > longs. (I believe that can be fixed for Pentiums and above using
> > > CMPXCHG8B, but I can't test the code).
> >
> > The i386 with 64-bit longs doesn't boot from what I hear. Also, long in
> > machine/types.h is 32-bits long. I don't think we need to bother with 64-bit
> > longs. Adding 64-bit atomic ops will be expensive on <= 486.
>
> It has booted fine for several years. I last built it on 8 Oct 2000. I
> haven't committed all the bits so it probably doesn't even build in -current.
>
> Erm, long isn't in machine/types.h. In <machine>, only the long limits in
> <machine/limits.h> and a few bogus typedefs depend on the size of a long.
>
> I bother with 64-bit longs whether I need to or not :-). They get used on
> i386's mainly in old code and interfaces that don't use typedefs.
> Hopefully 64-bit scalars will never need to be accessed atomically.
Too late.
Many statistics in interfaces (i.e. bytes transmitted) are already 64 bit
words.
>
> Bruce
>
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