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From: Andrew MacLeod <amacleod@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>,
	Richard Biener <richard.guenther@gmail.com>,
	       Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>,
	       gcc-patches <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>
Cc: Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>, java@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [patch] Provide a can_compare_and_swap_p target hook.
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 13:31:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <545CC9A7.4000408@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <545C9176.6000006@redhat.com>

On 11/07/2014 04:31 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 06/11/14 19:05, Andrew MacLeod wrote:
>>
>> 1) Given that the compiler *always* provides support via libatomic now
>> (even if it is via locks), does that mean that VMSupportsCS8_builtin()
>> should always return true?
>>
>> or should we map to that a call to __atomic_always_lock_free() ? (that
>> always gets folded to a true or false at compile time)  my guess is the
>> latter?
> Perhaps so.  The problem is that some targets can't do CAS on 64-bit
> doublewords.
with libatomic present, I believe they always can, even if it drops to a 
lock implementation.

> I'm sorry, I really can't remember.  I can't think of any reason to
> want to turn off builtin support.  You have to remember that all this
> was written when our support for atomic builtins was seriously flaky
> and we would just punt back to the user anything we hadn't written
> yet.
>
>
No worries, i cant remember why i did something last year, let along 8 
years ago :-)

I'll take a best stab and we'll see what happens :-)

Andrew

      reply	other threads:[~2014-11-07 13:31 UTC|newest]

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2014-11-06 17:57             ` Andrew MacLeod
2014-11-06 18:23               ` Andrew Haley
2014-11-06 19:05                 ` Andrew MacLeod
2014-11-07  9:31                   ` Andrew Haley
2014-11-07 13:31                     ` Andrew MacLeod [this message]

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