On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 01:58:29PM +0100, Joe Orton wrote: > There are issues with use of asm/atomic.h on Linux: according to the > kernel gurus here this is a header for internal use of the kernel, > and shouldn't be used from userspace. > > The problems are, if I understand them correctly: > > - with newer kernel/glibc combinations (e.g the RHL7.3 beta) this stuff > really isn't exported to userspace, so they can't be used at all. (this > is the most serious problem, it prevents APR from building) > > - it's not a portable assumption to expect anything of this header > merely if "defined(__linux)"; some Linux ports may not contain the right > things. I'd expect it may
... not work on old versions of Linux either, I think I meant to say there :) joe
