fix broken spinlock due to miscompilation

actually this trick also seems to have made the uncontended case slower.

diff --git a/src/thread/pthread_spin_lock.c b/src/thread/pthread_spin_lock.c
index 9e43f47539d6dad5661936900ffb20e0c9c36b50..59fa6ea89ad2e322f0071724c7ab09275a4a3258 100644 (file)
--- a/src/thread/pthread_spin_lock.c
+++ b/src/thread/pthread_spin_lock.c
@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@
 
 int pthread_spin_lock(pthread_spinlock_t *s)
 {
-       while (*s || a_xchg(s, 1));
+       while (a_xchg(s, 1));
        return 0;
 }