RFR: 8187227: __m68k_cmpxchg() is not being used correctly

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

On 11/21/2017 11:37 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> This sounds like a good idea. I'll look into using that. Might make the
>> code also more readable. Although I would be a bit worried that this
>> introduces too many layers of indirection, wouldn't it?
> 
> It's a a compiler builtin, so it should be (at least) as good as inline
> assembly.  It's GCC-specific, but that shouldn't matter.

Ok, that's what I guessed but I wasn't sure about. Thanks for confirming
it.

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