deadlock bug fix

[Kero van Gelder]

> > With this fix I seem to have no more unexpected deadlocks.
> > Just to be on the safe side, does anyone know of similar
> > "supposed to be atomic" operations?
> 
> I didn't put in your generic version in order to encourage
> you and others to look through your MIPS manual and submit a
> working md version.  We don't want to make kaffe too easy to port ;-)

Unfortunately, this generic solution did NOT fix the (awt) deadlock
problem I experience under HP-UX 11.

Bye,
Kero.

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