stepping through atomic_dec_return

[Michael Richardson]

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>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Richardson <mcr at sandelman.ottawa.on.ca> writes:
    Michael> I can see how setting through this code with the debugger
    Michael> could cause a problem, since there would be debug
    Michael> exceptions, and there would be other code in the debug
    Michael> stubs that could set the RESERVED=0.  It's hard to know,
    Michael> but it seems unlikely to me.

  Actually, I'm wrong. 
  I was trying to single step through the code, since much of the code
is inline, and doing "n" in the debugger won't set a break point after
that statement, it may well single step through.
  Setting a break point after the down() worked.

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