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Re: About gcc builtin atomics



Mikael Pettersson dixit:

>> > (On Linux, but not on e.g. FreeMiNT.)
>> 
>> FreeMiNT on which hardware?

Doesn’t matter: it doesn’t have a Linux-specific syscall.

>OTOH, if CAS is provably unsafe in user-space for a sizeable portion
>of the Linux/m68k HW base, then the kernel should IMO provide a
>vsyscall page with at least CAS and DCAS/CAS64 entry points (doing

And TLS!

So who’s going to be writing it? ;-)

bye,
//mira“compiling”bilos
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