Re: [HACKERS] configure on linux

On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Tom I Helbekkmo wrote:

> Actually, it would be good to get all tas() assembly implementations
> out of include/storage/s_lock.h and into genuine .s files like this.
> With the current way of doing it, the assembly routine has to be
> "static", because s_lock.h is included several places, which is a bit
> silly, but a worse consequence is that GCC will inline the assembly
> code at optimization levels above 2, thus breaking it..  Is this what
> you're doing, and the reason why the above problem occurred?

    Actually, the problem seems to be configure not quite doing things
as I expect :(

> Is it too late to get the VAX stuff into 6.3?  It's really not much,
> and it would be kinda fun...  :-)

    Ssend in the patch, we'll look it over.  If it doesn't go into
v6.3, then we'll have the patch online for v6.4 :)