http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52110

--- Comment #4 from dave.anglin at bell dot net 2012-02-05 21:43:41 UTC ---
On 5-Feb-12, at 2:12 PM, ebotcazou at gcc dot gnu.org wrote:

> --- Comment #3 from Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at gcc dot gnu.org>  
> 2012-02-05 19:12:36 UTC ---
>> Attached is a possible patch.  On "most" PARISC machines, reads and
>> writes are strongly ordered and possibly this meets the "atomic"   
>> requirement.
>
> Not entirely I think, since the object is 64-bit wide.  Of course,  
> it's a
> little annoying to discover years later that the implementation  
> wasn't really
> correct.

It would be inefficient but it would be possible to implement 64-bit  
atomic loads
and stores using floating point double loads and stores.

> So I'd leave s-taspri-hpux-dce.ads unchanged and just comment out  
> the second
> pragma Atomic, with a ??? saying that, historically, the pragma had  
> been
> silently accepted but actually ineffective.


I'll give this a try but it will take a while to test.

Dave
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John David Anglin    dave.ang...@bell.net

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