[Target maintainers]: Please update libjava/sysdep/*/locks.h with new atomic builtins

David Edelsohn dje.gcc@gmail.com
Thu Jun 14 16:17:00 GMT 2012


On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 5:41 AM, Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I would like to point out that in libjava/sysdep/*/locks.h many
> targets still implement atomics in assembly. These utility functions
> can be implemented with new atomic builtins, avoiding quite some
> compexity.
>
> Maintaniers of unconverted targets (m68k, pa, powerpc, s390, sh and sparc) CC'd.

Other than cleaning up the ports, is there enough use of gcj,
especially on these other architectures, where this matters?

- David



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