Jan-Benedict Glaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am I wrong or did we, "forced" because we wanted to be binary compatible > to some major distributions, just follow others and doing optimization > just as they did?
You are wrong. There are two versions of atomicity.h, one for i486+, and the other for i386+ (at the time the other distributors released their compilers, there was only the i486+ version, and it was assumed to work for i386+, but didn't). The two versions are binary-incompatible, providing the same feature using entirely different data structures. As everybody else is using the i486+ version (given that no other version existed when they released their systems), Debian needs to follow, for binary compatibility. Regards, Martin