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Re: [Ada] Fix to 64-bit atomic operation failures on ppc-linux


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


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