[PATCH] atomicity for mips patch

[Eric Christopher]

On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 11:12, Paul Koning wrote:
> Excerpt of message (sent 3 July 2002) by Eric Christopher:
> > 
> > > How about a way to enable sc/ll for other targets by a specific
> > > switch?  That will help for embedded systems where the target is known
> > > to be sane.
> > 
> > For the *-elf or a particular os?
> 
> I'm not sure how to answer that.  One example is an OS which supports
> MIPS-1 platforms so it cannot in general count on ll/sc, but we're
> running that same on a platform that does have ll/sc so it makes sense
> to enable it through an explicit override (not based on the os name or
> the like in the target string).

Don't suppose you have the source and would consider trapping and
emulating the instructions? This is why I turned off atomicity by
default. IF Phil and Benjamin want, we could add a "no really, i want
atomic instructions please" configure flag, but...

-eric

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