[PATCH] ARM: Add SWP/SWPB emulation for ARMv7 processors (v6)

Linus Walleij linus.ml.walleij at gmail.com
Mon Jul 19 16:02:12 EDT 2010


2010/7/19 Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill at 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



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