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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 06/13] qemu-thread: add simple test-and-set s


From: Alex Bennée
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 06/13] qemu-thread: add simple test-and-set spinlock
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2016 22:24:47 +0100
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Richard Henderson <address@hidden> writes:

> On 04/08/2016 06:02 AM, Alex Bennée wrote:
>>> > +typedef struct QemuSpin {
>>> > +    int value;
>> If we are throwing true and false around as the only two values can we
>> use bool here and be consistent when setting/clearing.
>>
>
> Except that quite a lot of hosts can only (efficiently) do atomic operations 
> on
> a minimum of 4 byte quantities.  I'd rather continue to use int here.

I suspect bool == unsigned int underneath. But having true/false and 0/1 mixed 
up
gets confusing even if they are equivalent.

>
>
> r~


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Alex Bennée



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