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

Kirill A. Shutemov kirill at shutemov.name
Mon Jul 19 17:26:13 EDT 2010


On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:02:12PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> 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.

I think beter to describe it in commit message.

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov



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