From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 01/24 v4] arch: add an option to specify if the arch has atomic ops
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 14:57:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140817145732.71eafc75@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bd3543da-f3d3-4236-be5a-d6c85e8305ce@email.android.com>
Dear Thomas De Schampheleire,
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.
Thomas
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Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-17 12:49 [Buildroot] [PATCH 0/24 v4] arch: move atomics to arch, not toolchain (branch yem/atomics) Yann E. MORIN
2014-08-17 12:48 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 01/24 v4] arch: add an option to specify if the arch has atomic ops Yann E. MORIN
2014-08-17 12:55 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2014-08-17 12:57 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2014-08-17 13:04 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2014-08-17 13:06 ` Yann E. MORIN
2014-08-17 12:48 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 02/24 v4] package/icu: use the new ARCH_HAS_ATOMICS as dependency Yann E. MORIN
2014-08-17 12:48 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 03/24 v4] package/libtorrent: " Yann E. MORIN
2014-08-17 12:48 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 04/24 v4] package/jack2: " Yann E. MORIN
2014-08-17 12:48 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 05/24 v4] package/thrift: " Yann E. MORIN
2014-08-17 12:48 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 06/24 v4] toolchain: drop the now-unused old BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_ATOMIC_INTRINSICS Yann E. MORIN
2014-08-17 12:48 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 07/24 v4] manual: document dependencies on atomic operations Yann E. MORIN
2014-08-17 13:01 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2014-08-17 13:15 ` Yann E. MORIN
2014-08-17 13:25 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2014-08-17 14:20 ` Yann E. MORIN
2014-08-17 12:49 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 08/24 v4] cairo: add dependency " Yann E. MORIN
2014-08-17 12:49 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 09/24 v4] pulseaudio: " Yann E. MORIN
2014-08-17 12:49 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 10/24 v4] libftdi: " Yann E. MORIN
2014-08-17 12:49 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 11/24 v4] msgpack: " Yann E. MORIN
2014-08-17 12:49 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 12/24 v4] arch/arm: always has atomic ops Yann E. MORIN
2014-08-17 12:49 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 13/24 v4] arch/avr32: " Yann E. MORIN
2014-08-17 12:49 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 14/24 v4] arch/bfin: " Yann E. MORIN
2014-08-17 12:49 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 15/24 v4] arch/m68k: " Yann E. MORIN
2014-08-17 12:49 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 16/24 v4] arch/microblaze: " Yann E. MORIN
2014-08-17 12:49 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 17/24 v4] arch/mips: " Yann E. MORIN
2014-08-17 12:49 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 18/24 v4] arch/nios2: " Yann E. MORIN
2014-08-17 12:49 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 19/24 v4] arch/powerpc: " Yann E. MORIN
2014-08-17 12:49 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 20/24 v4] arch/sh: " Yann E. MORIN
2014-08-17 12:49 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 21/24 v4] arch/sparc: " Yann E. MORIN
2014-08-17 12:49 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 22/24 v4] arch/x86: all x86 but i386 has atomics operations Yann E. MORIN
2014-08-17 12:49 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 23/24 v4] arch/xtensa: always has atomic ops Yann E. MORIN
2014-08-17 12:49 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 24/24 v4] arch: remove no-longer default on atomics option Yann E. MORIN
2014-08-17 13:03 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2014-08-17 13:24 ` Yann E. MORIN
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