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From: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Sean Bruno <sbruno@freebsd.org>,
	QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [FreeBSD] Host build i386 failing to build aarch64 targets
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 09:11:14 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vb4grya5.fsf@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA92YQMiDHK9bKV0Q5BMpcd8MtND3EH+MS5EVGVqeSmaSQ@mail.gmail.com>


Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:

> On 20 March 2016 at 19:20, Sean Bruno <sbruno@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
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>> aarch64 targets are now failing to build on i386 hosts due to missing
>> __atomic_load_8() calls since this commit:
>>
>> https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/a0aa44b488b3601415d55041e4619aef5f3a4ba8#diff-c143d686899ae51d7b927d9c682e12fd
>>
>> I'm unsure if Linux is disabling aarch64 targets for i386 hosts or if
>> this commit works "just fine" on Linux hosts right now, as it doesn't
>> work with clang or gcc.
>
> I think it just works on most Linux 32-bit architectures because
> the compiler support can inline a suitable atomic op (there
> is one case where it doesn't, which I think is PPC32).
>
> In any case, we mustn't use atomics on types larger
> than the host pointer type, because it's not portable enough.
> Paolo or Alex, can you have a look at this?

I'll get a BSD up and running and check. What is triggering the
__atomic_load_8 though?

>
> thanks
> -- PMM


--
Alex Bennée

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-21  9:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-20 19:20 [Qemu-devel] [FreeBSD] Host build i386 failing to build aarch64 targets Sean Bruno
2016-03-20 20:03 ` Peter Maydell
2016-03-21  9:11   ` Alex Bennée [this message]
2016-03-21 14:52     ` Sean Bruno
2016-03-21 15:36       ` Alex Bennée
2016-03-21 15:56         ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-03-22 16:10           ` Sean Bruno
2016-03-22 16:22             ` Alex Bennée
2016-03-28 17:00               ` Sean Bruno
2016-03-31 16:57               ` Sean Bruno
2016-03-21  9:06 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-03-21  9:35   ` Peter Maydell
2016-03-21 11:23     ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-03-21 11:49       ` Alex Bennée
2016-04-06 16:11 ` Sean Bruno
2016-04-06 18:51   ` Alex Bennée

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