Re: [HACKERS] Platforms with v6.3 trouble

>
> >From what I understand, there are at least two platforms which are
> having trouble with the macro inlining in v6.3. The alpha ports have
> trouble inlining the slock assembler code, and the SCO port has trouble
> inlining the cache lookup code.
>
> Since these macros were inlined only for performance reasons, would it
> be possible to revert to non-inline function calls for these platforms?
> It would seem that substituting a macro expansion for a compiled routine
> could be done with a compiler switch (e.g. USE_INLINING) so it could be
> turned on and off at will.
>
> For most of us, the performance gains are fantastic, but for those ports
> which broke performance has degraded to zero :(

Yes, how do we do that?  Do we have inlined-versions of these files?
Sounds messy.  Can people run cpp separately on the files, then compile
them?  I wonder.  I think this is an SCO-only problem, and seeing as
their native compilers are notoriously buggy (Microsoft/SVr4 code), it
is no wonder.

The alpha problem has been solved by having a s_lock.c file, that only
contains the alpha/linux locking code.  They don't have local asm
labels, and hence the workaround.  I believe this is not a problem issue
for 6.3.  Anyone?  Of course, we still have the initdb problem, or do
we?


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