[LLVMdev] Reviving the new LLVM concurrency model

[Eli Friedman]

On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Jianzhou Zhao <jianzhou at seas.upenn.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Eli Friedman <eli.friedman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Jianzhou Zhao <jianzhou at seas.upenn.edu> wrote:
>>> I noticed the patch was already merged into the current LLVM language
>>> reference manual with new memory instructions, fence, cmpxchg and
>>> atomicrmw. Will the instructions be available in LLVM 3.0?
>>
>> Hopefully, yes; the implementation is in progress.
>
> Will all the intrinsic functions
> (http://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#int_atomics) eventually be replaced
> by the new instructions, or  there will be two versions of concurrent
> memory operations left?

Yes, they will be replaced.

-Eli