[Buildroot] [PATCH 01/24 v4] arch: add an option to specify if the arch has atomic ops
Yann E. MORIN
yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Sun Aug 17 13:06:50 UTC 2014
Thomas², 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.
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