From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yann E. MORIN Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 15:06:50 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 01/24 v4] arch: add an option to specify if the arch has atomic ops In-Reply-To: <20140817145732.71eafc75@free-electrons.com> References: <7d72fe60f396407b4fbc68ba8f9910cda0fe24a8.1408279142.git.yann.morin.1998@free.fr> <20140817145732.71eafc75@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <20140817130650.GD5274@free.fr> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Thomas?, All, On 2014-08-17 14:57 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly: > On Sun, 17 Aug 2014 14:55:06 +0200, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote: > > > Is there a specific reason why the option is now > > dubbed ATOMICS iso ATOMIC_INTRINSICS? > > > > The latter may be a bit more descriptive, no? > > But wouldn't make sense. "intrinsics" is a compiler notion, which > doesn't have much to do with an architecture. An architecture provides > atomic instructions, which in turn allow compilers to implement a > certain class of compiler intrinsics to access those atomic operations. That. Plus, who could have resisted the 'atomics' pun? ;-) Regards, Yann E. MORIN. -- .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------. | Yann E. MORIN | Real-Time Embedded | /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Erics' conspiracy: | | +33 662 376 056 | Software Designer | \ / CAMPAIGN | ___ | | +33 223 225 172 `------------.-------: X AGAINST | \e/ There is no | | http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/ | _/*\_ | / \ HTML MAIL | v conspiracy. | '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------'