On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 11:29:33AM +0900, YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
> 	(it might be good to have MI-exposed atomic_ operations like
> 	freebsd and linux.  but it's a separate topic.)

Yes, in deed.
Are there any archs that can not easily provide macros for those, so 
we could copy the FreeBSD interface?

Otherwise we'd need a feature test macro and fall back to spinlocks,
for archs that don't provide the atomice macros.

Martin