Hi,
I have a revised version of the libatomic ABI draft which tries to
accommodate Richard's comments. The new version is attached. The diff is
also appended.
Thanks,
- Bin
diff ABI.txt ABI-1.1.txt
28a29,30
> - The versioning of the library external symbols
>
47a50,57
> Note
>
> Some 64-bit
CMPXCHG16B is not always available on 64-bit x86 platforms, so 16-byte
naturally aligned atomics are not inlineable. The support functions for
such atomics are free to use lock-free implementation if the instruction
is available on specific platforms.
Except that it is available on almost all 64
Redirecting to the gcc list for discussion.
I'll follow up on that thread directly.
r~
Forwarded Message
Subject:Re: GCC libatomic questions
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2016 10:27:20 -0700
From: Bin Fan
Organization: Oracle Corporation
To: Richard Henderson
Hello R
