Aliasing issue with TAILQ on ppc64 ?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <CAJ-FndDP3RSjgL_fXap2DyDZdXW3iQ_=jnAx_cCx5uFhFeaq5w at mail.gmail.com>
, Attilio Rao writes:

>Stop acting like the old teacher speaking to stupid students.

A very apt metaphor in this case.

Adding memory barriers to the TAILQ macros is not something I would
do lightly, but it is, obviously, one of the possibilties.

I'd far prefer if we could get away with sticking a couple of
volatile's in there.

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