[cfe-dev] atomic intrinsics

[Howard Hinnant]

On Oct 6, 2010, at 2:54 PM, Eric Christopher wrote:

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> On Oct 6, 2010, at 11:52 AM, Howard Hinnant wrote:
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>> On Oct 6, 2010, at 2:49 PM, Eric Christopher wrote:
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>>> On Oct 6, 2010, at 9:19 AM, Howard Hinnant wrote:
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>>>> In the hopes of clarification, I've put three design descriptions up at:
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>>>> http://libcxx.llvm.org/atomic_design.html
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>>>> A and/or B is what Eric proposed.  C is what I've been working toward.  A is my preference.  But I can't implement A without buy-in from the front end team.  Heck, I can't actually implement any of them without said buy-in. :-)  I chose C originally because that was where I thought I could most likely get buy-in.
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>>> To be more specific for A:
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>>> The front end handles every intrinisic listed, and the library provides a default and unoptimized implementation. The back end will provide a better optimized implementation if it can, otherwise falling back to a call to the library function.
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>> In the above sentence I presume "the library" refers to compiler_rt, otherwise the clang would be tied to libc++.
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> Either/or.  It depends on whether you want these intrinsics to be generally useful or tied to the implementation of <atomic>.

I think if we do a good job with this, other implementations will follow.  Therefore I recommend compiler-rt (similar to dealing with complex arithmetic, count leading zeros, etc.)

-Howard