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Re: [trans-mem] document -fgnu-tm
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
- To: Aldy Hernandez <aldyh at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>, gcc-patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 22:02:38 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: [trans-mem] document -fgnu-tm
- References: <4EB2BA34.9020907@redhat.com>
On Thu, 3 Nov 2011, Aldy Hernandez wrote:
> OK for branch?
* doc/invoke.texi (C Dialect Options): Document -fgnu-tm.
Index: doc/invoke.texi
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+When the option @option{-fgnu-tm} is specified, the compiler will
+generate code for the Linux variant of Intel's current Transactional
I assume this ought to be "GNU/Linux variant"?
+Memory ABI specification document (Revision 1.1, May 6 2009). This is
+an experimental feature whose interface may change in future versions
+of GCC, as the official specification changes. Please note that not
+all architectures are supported for this feature.
Where can the user find which platforms are supported?
+For more information on GCC's support for transactional memory, see
+the accompanying documentation for @file{libitm}.
Ah, here it is. How does one find that documentation?
Gerald