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From: Andrew MacLeod <amacleod@redhat.com>
To: Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaud Charlet <charlet@adacore.com>,
	gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org,        Vincent Pucci <pucci@adacore.com>
Subject: Re: [Ada] Fix to 64-bit atomic operation failures on ppc-linux
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 15:59:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50058BB7.5010203@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50058B29.5050004@redhat.com>

On 07/17/2012 11:56 AM, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On 07/17/2012 04:57 AM, Andrew MacLeod wrote:
>> What is the nature of the atomic failures using the
>> __atomic_compare_exchange built-in?   Does it have anything to do
>> with the expected value being returned by pointer?
> It's a rue.  He never was using __atomic_compare_exchange;
> the "Atomic_*" was simply the Ada symbol name.
>
>
>

Ah,  I was just disturbed by the apparent switch from 'atomic' to 
'sync'... which is the wrong direction :-)

Andrew

  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-17 15:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-17 10:15 Arnaud Charlet
2012-07-17 11:57 ` Andrew MacLeod
2012-07-17 15:57   ` Richard Henderson
2012-07-17 15:59     ` Andrew MacLeod [this message]
2012-07-17 15:55 ` Richard Henderson

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