The IBM XL team defined a set of HTM intrinsic functions that were supposed to be API compatible across the XL and GCC compilers on both Power and S390. PR61193 describes an issue where the functions that begin a transaction are incompatible. The Power intrinsics return non-zero on success, while the S390 intrinsics return zero on success.
After discussing this with the XL compiler team, the S390 GCC team and the Power GCC team, we have decided to leave the incompatibility between Power and S390. However, the XL and GCC compilers will be compatible with each other when targeting the same processor target. To mitigate the incompatibility somewhat, we have decided to add a macro to the powerpc*-linux's htmintrin.h file that defines what the "successful" return status value of the __TM_simple_begin() and __TM_begin() intrinsic function is. This macro is already defined in the S390's htmintrin.h header file and is used by the S390 to determine whether the transaction was successfully started or not. By adding the same macro on Power, we allow users to write common code between Power and S390, even though our successful return status values are different. For example, the following code can be used on Power and S390, even though the actual value returned by __TM_simple_begin() is different. if ((tx_state = __TM_simple_begin ()) == _HTM_TBEGIN_STARTED) { /* Transaction State Initiated. */ ... } else { /* Transaction State Failed. */ ... } David approved this offline, so I'm committing this to mainline as revision 210486, as well as the 4.9 (210487) and 4.8 (210488) branches. Peter PR target/61193 * config/rs6000/htmxlintrin.h (_HTM_TBEGIN_STARTED): New define. (__TM_simple_begin): Use it. (__TM_begin): Likewise. Index: gcc/config/rs6000/htmxlintrin.h =================================================================== --- gcc/config/rs6000/htmxlintrin.h (revision 210485) +++ gcc/config/rs6000/htmxlintrin.h (working copy) @@ -46,12 +46,17 @@ extern "C" { typedef char TM_buff_type[16]; +/* Compatibility macro with s390. This macro can be used to determine + whether a transaction was successfully started from the __TM_begin() + and __TM_simple_begin() intrinsic functions below. */ +#define _HTM_TBEGIN_STARTED 1 + extern __inline long __attribute__ ((__gnu_inline__, __always_inline__, __artificial__)) __TM_simple_begin (void) { if (__builtin_expect (__builtin_tbegin (0), 1)) - return 1; + return _HTM_TBEGIN_STARTED; return 0; } @@ -61,7 +66,7 @@ __TM_begin (void* const TM_buff) { *_TEXASRL_PTR (TM_buff) = 0; if (__builtin_expect (__builtin_tbegin (0), 1)) - return 1; + return _HTM_TBEGIN_STARTED; #ifdef __powerpc64__ *_TEXASR_PTR (TM_buff) = __builtin_get_texasr (); #else