[LLVMdev] broken Atomic.cpp on Darwin

[Xi Wang]

Thanks.  I think I am using Apple GCC 4.2.

i686-apple-darwin9-gcc-4.2.1 (GCC) 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5566)

Should I use something else for LLVM?

- xi

On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 1:20 AM, Owen Anderson <resistor at mac.com> wrote:
>
> On May 23, 2009, at 9:41 PM, Xi Wang wrote:
>
> There is no __sync_synchronize or __sync_val_compare_and_swap on Mac
> OS X.  One might use OSMemoryBarrier or OSAtomicCompareAndSwap32
> instead.  The patch is attached.
>
> Actually, __sync_synchronize and __sync_val_compare_and_swap DO exist on
> Darwin, but only if you use Apple's GCC 4.2 (or later), just as it is on
> Linux.  We always want to use these intrinsic versions if possible, because
> they're much lower overhead.
> The policy Chris has proposed is that we simply do not support multithreaded
> LLVM with a host compiler pre-GCC 4.2.  If you need multithreaded LLVM on an
> unsupported platform, you can build a single threaded LLVM and LLVM-GCC, and
> then use that to build a multithreaded LLVM.
> --Owen
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