[LLVMdev] Proposal for atomic and synchronization instructions

[Andrew Lenharth]

Poor alpha, no code examples or entries in your tables.

Andrew

On 7/9/07, Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> After a fair amount of research and work, I have put together a
> concrete proposal for LLVM representations of atomic operations and
> synchronization constructs. These aim to provide the minimal
> functionality in the IR for representing the hardware constructs that
> threading libraries and parallel programming rely on.
>
> http://chandlerc.net/llvm_atomics.html
>
> While I am no expert on the various architectures, I've done my best
> at providing base-line implementations for each instruction. I am sure
> these will need tweaking and fixing, but should provide a very good
> starting point for the targets.
>
> Comments are more than welcome, especially suggestions for
> improvement. I hope this provides a sound background and a good
> starting place for bringing these features to LLVM. Many thanks also
> go to Reid who has helped tremendously with putting this together, and
> several of the people at Aerospace who helped in the research phase.
>
> -Chandler Carruth
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