[committed] Add locking semaphore to sysdep/pa/locks.h

Wed Jan 4 20:07:00 GMT 2006

>>>>> "Hans" == Boehm, Hans <hans.boehm@hp.com> writes:

Hans> I certainly agree that this patch is a good idea.
Hans> But note that the current gc7alpha versions use atomic_ops from
Hans> http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/linux/atomic_ops
Hans> to do this sort of stuff, in my (biased) opinion in a significantly
Hans> better way.
I'm curious to know how this compares to using the gcc
synchronization builtins. I've considered changing libgcj to use
those, simply because it would mean we could push another little
porting task onto the gcc target maintainers.
Tom