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From: "redi at gcc dot gnu.org" <gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org> To: gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org Subject: [Bug middle-end/51766] [4.7 regression] sync_fetch_and_xxx atomicity Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:20:00 -0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <bug-51766-4-2iHEYpfju7@http.gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/> (raw) In-Reply-To: <bug-51766-4@http.gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51766 --- Comment #9 from Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> 2012-01-10 18:20:00 UTC --- (In reply to comment #8) > For the way that programmers use __sync_* builtins, release or acquire-release > semantics are sufficient. Are you claiming you know how all programmers have used those builtins? > As we see in libstdc++, release semantics are overly > strict when incrementing the reference, as opposed to destroying an object. > > Again, there is no cost to Intel specifying sequential consistency as opposed > to a slightly weaker memory model. Intel chose a memory model that matched and > benefited their architecture. IBM should have the freedom to choose memory > models that benefit its architectures. How or why Intel chose those semantics is not really relevant, the fact is that with the exception of lock_test_and_set and lock_release the __sync builtins are documented to be full barriers, and always have been documented as full barriers, both in GCC's and Intel's docs. If someone uses them in their code relying on the fact they'll get a full barrier, then someone else runs that code on POWER and there's a bug because it isn't a full barrier, who is to blame for the bug? That said, I don't have any personal interest in what they do on POWER, as long as I'm not asked to deal with any libstdc++ bugs resulting from the builtins not behaving as documented.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-10 18:20 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2012-01-05 15:01 [Bug middle-end/51766] New: " dje at gcc dot gnu.org 2012-01-05 15:02 ` [Bug middle-end/51766] " dje at gcc dot gnu.org 2012-01-09 15:40 ` rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org 2012-01-09 15:45 ` redi at gcc dot gnu.org 2012-01-09 16:51 ` dje at gcc dot gnu.org 2012-01-10 9:43 ` rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org 2012-01-10 14:40 ` dje at gcc dot gnu.org 2012-01-10 14:49 ` rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org 2012-01-10 15:31 ` redi at gcc dot gnu.org 2012-01-10 18:09 ` dje at gcc dot gnu.org 2012-01-10 18:20 ` redi at gcc dot gnu.org [this message] 2012-01-10 18:24 ` redi at gcc dot gnu.org 2012-01-10 18:34 ` dje at gcc dot gnu.org 2012-01-10 18:47 ` jakub at gcc dot gnu.org 2012-01-10 19:14 ` amacleod at redhat dot com 2012-01-10 20:26 ` dje at gcc dot gnu.org 2012-01-12 20:41 ` dje at gcc dot gnu.org
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