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fetch32/store32 et al
Hello,
Unless anyone objects, I would like to replace current fuword(), suword()
and friends with a little bit better API:
int fetch32(void *addr, uint32_t *c);
int store32(void *addr, uint32_t c);
And equivalent routines to fetch/store 8, 16 and 64 (if needed) bit values.
Routines would return 0 on success and EFAULT on failure.
Rationale: 1) there are already bugs in the tree where incorrect sizes of
"word" are assumed (e.g. see amd64 fuword) 2) currently, fuword() et al
cannot return -1 as a value.
Also, this would be consistent with atomic_ops(3) and would close PR/2512.
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Mindaugas
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