[rfc] atomic memory operation builtins
Andrew Pinski
pinskia@physics.uc.edu
Sun Apr 10 00:17:00 GMT 2005
On Apr 9, 2005, at 7:30 PM, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 11:03:08PM +0200, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
>> I have two concerns with implementing s390 back end support:
>>
>> - We only have compare-and-swap instructions for SImode and DImode,
>> not for HImode or QImode.
>>
>> - The compare-and-swap insns require that their memory argument
>> is naturally aligned, or else they throw an exception.
>
> As for ia64.
And PPC (which is different than any other instruction on PPC, well
maybe not the floating ones).
Thanks,
Andrew Pinski
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