From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 14:57:32 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 01/24 v4] arch: add an option to specify if the arch has atomic ops In-Reply-To: References: <7d72fe60f396407b4fbc68ba8f9910cda0fe24a8.1408279142.git.yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Message-ID: <20140817145732.71eafc75@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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 -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com