Re: Test framework; new counter class

[Albert Strasheim]

Hello,

On Wed, 01 Jan 2003, Albert Strasheim wrote:

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> >     One point that you should take into account for the atomic
> > counter stuff is that we removed the use of asm/atomic.h (actually
> > there should not be any references to it left) a few weeks ago. Look
> > for a bug report that we received from the debian maintainer of
> > commoncpp2, at the September and October archives of bug-commoncpp. I
> > think we should not wait to add the counter template to HEAD, and if
> > you think the interface is stable, it should also get into RELEASE1.
> 
> I'll look at the atomic.h stuff now.

I'm confused.

We should be using sys/atomic.h instead of asm/atomic.h, because 
asm/atomic.h is an evil kernel header. Yet I haven't been able to find 
an i386 Linux system on which sys/atomic.h actually exists (checked 
Debian unstable, RedHat 7.1, and recent Mandrake).

Where is it? How do I get at the atomic stuff on i386 without violating 
this policy?

Cheers,

Albert