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Re: Prototype libatomic
One of the things I want to make sure is that the library can be easily
extended in a generic way (ie not target dependant) as needs change.
Ie, initiually we are simply guaranteeing atomic operations and fall
back to a lock.
I expect in the not too distant future other sorts of guarantees may be
desired, such as various forms of forward progress guarantees to replace
the spin locks, and It'd be nice to have a TM version of the library as
well, so when hardware is available we can make good use of it.
That sort of thing :-)
Perhaps those can fall into the config directory as well? ie
config/TM or config/forwardprogress? or would that fall in place
better as new files the libatomic directory (or new subdirectories) and
using any new info enabled from the various config/target directories....
Andrew