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Re: [PATCH] Fix PPC atomicity.h
On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 05:42:59PM -0800, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 11:25:51PM +0100, Franz Sirl wrote:
> > BTW, is atomicity.h going to stay in the libstdc++-v3 dir? Or will
> > it be a generic GCC header (which seems useful) at some point in time?
>
> If we do anything it should be more
> similar to the bits in config/ia64/ia64intrin.h that the
> ia64 abi inherited from the sgi compilers.
>
> I.e. make them builtins, possibly without a header file.
This seems like a good place to point out that the call interface
for these is still not right. I hope the interface will be fixed
before it gets wired into the compiler. (The problem, IIRC, was in
the inconsistent argument/return types.)
Nathan Myers
ncm@cantrip.org