From: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add stdatomic.h for clang>=3.1 and gcc>=4.1
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 11:38:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141123163849.GL29621@brightrain.aerifal.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1416760143.16006.460.camel@eris.loria.fr>
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 05:29:03PM +0100, Jens Gustedt wrote:
> > > For the discussion about the second case for the type, this is the
> > > question if there are archs that implement TAS operations with other
> > > values than 0 for "unset" and 1 for "set". There seem to be archs out
> > > there that implement TAS with other values, I vaguely remember having
> > > heard about some risk arch (??). Actually this also is the reason why
> > > the standard defines this type in such a weird manner, and why per the
> > > standard it needs a dedicated initialization macro, default
> > > initialization with 0 doesn't do in all cases.
> >
> > These are not archs we can support with musl, so they wouldn't be
> > relevant. And they're not archs that could support POSIX without a
> > kernel stop-the-world approach for implementing CAS, or syscalls for
> > every synchronization action.
>
> Could you be more specific? Is it that you know that all the arch in
> question and conclude about their behavior from you knowledge about
> them?
>
> Without more specific information I don't see any reason, that an arch
> that has such specialized super-fast TAS with weird values couldn't
> have a CAS that behaves "normal". But then I also don't see any reason
> for such a TAS design in any case ...
If you have a CAS, you don't use the broken TAS to implement TAS. You
just use the CAS.
Rich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-23 16:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-09 12:53 Joakim Sindholt
2014-11-09 17:11 ` Jens Gustedt
2014-11-22 20:52 ` Joakim Sindholt
2014-11-22 23:09 ` Jens Gustedt
2014-11-22 23:30 ` Rich Felker
2014-11-23 1:31 ` Jens Gustedt
2014-11-23 1:43 ` Rich Felker
2014-11-23 1:47 ` Joakim Sindholt
2014-11-23 2:42 ` Rich Felker
2014-11-23 9:43 ` Jens Gustedt
2014-11-23 15:21 ` Rich Felker
2014-11-23 16:29 ` Jens Gustedt
2014-11-23 16:38 ` Rich Felker [this message]
2014-11-23 17:05 ` Jens Gustedt
2014-11-23 17:29 ` stephen Turner
2014-11-23 19:38 ` Rich Felker
2014-11-23 8:49 ` Jens Gustedt
2014-11-23 15:06 ` Rich Felker
2014-11-23 16:18 ` Jens Gustedt
2014-11-23 16:37 ` Rich Felker
2014-11-23 18:01 ` Jens Gustedt
2014-11-23 19:39 ` Rich Felker
2014-11-23 23:30 ` Jens Gustedt
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