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[Bug translator/6932] c->busy can be non-atomic.


------- Additional Comments From fche at redhat dot com  2008-11-13 14:39 -------
> By the way, for reentrancy-prevention, we don't need an atomic-operation,
> because the reentrance always occurs on the same processor...

Yes, but a nonatomic increment would not be protected against
interrupts/preemption.

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