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Subject: [Bug other/49244] New: no intrinsics to emit 'lock bts' and 'lock btc'
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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49244

           Summary: no intrinsics to emit 'lock bts' and 'lock btc'
           Product: gcc
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I want to be able to code this function:

bool
set_and_test (int *a,
              int bit)
{
  uint mask = (1u << bit);

  return (__sync_fetch_and_or (a, mask) & mask) != 0;
}

and have GCC not emit a loop on amd64 and x86.


GCC presently emits a loop for __sync_fetch_and_or() in this case.  That's
because asm "lock or" discards the previous value, so it can only be used in
cases that the result is ignored.  Since we do a comparison with the value, GCC
has to do the loop.

This special case (set and test a single bit) corresponds quite directly to the
'lock bts' assembly instruction, though.  GCC could emit that instead.

It would be nice if GCC could detect (by magic?) that I am only interested in
this single bit or (probably much easier) expose an intrinsic that lets me
access this functionality on platforms that it exists and falls back to using
__sync_fetch_and_or() otherwise.