On 1 Aug 2000, Claus-Justus Heine wrote:
>the "__asm__" in wrfpcr() is missing a "__volatile__" when
>__alpha_cix__ is defined. Otherwise gcc-2.95.2 optimizes the wrfpcr()
>away (in arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c, have looked at the asm output of
>gcc).
Yes, that was a kernel bug and your patch sure fixes it. tmp was not
returned, it was local variable, so any side effect on it could be
discarded, and val was an input.
Thanks,
Andrea
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