Chris Down writes:
I must confess I have no idea of the history of why it was `extern int` in the first place -- my fear was somehow we use cmpxchg.h from a different context. Do you have any idea? :-)
Ok, found where it's introduced in the pre-git archives: "New file asm-ia64/intrinsics.h." from David Mosberger <dav...@tiger.hpl.hp.com>, Dec 9 2002. No indication why it's extern, but it's been there since the dawn of ia64.
