Comment 4 for bug 532722

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Dave Martin (dave-martin-arm) wrote :

I have a concern about the proposed patch: if the code is ever built for an arch > 7-a (in the future) the wrong code will silently be built.

Is it not feasible to use configure tests to determine whether asm("nop") and __sync_* are supported? This is more future-proof...