Java: add flag_use_atomic_builtins
David Daney
ddaney@caviumnetworks.com
Wed Aug 12 19:00:00 GMT 2009
Boehm, Hans wrote:
> [Partially replying to myself]
>> From: Boehm, Hans
>>
>> At the risk of asking a stupid question, shouldn't all the
>> code inside gcc gradually migrate towards using the C++0x
>> (and probably C1x) atomics, which seem to be generally
>> supported by gcc 4.4?
>>
>> There are known issues with __sync (no atomic loads and
>> stores, underspecified ordering), which is why there wasn't
>> much of an effort topush the __sync interface into C++0x.
>>
>> Hans
>>
> OK. That was largely a stupid question, since we're talking about the compiler implementation of those primitives, which presumably are shared with the atomic<T> implementation?
>
The generic implementation uses __sync*, but some individual targets
have hand coded asm blocks.
David Daney
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