Hi,
On 2019-01-20 14:37:43 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund writes:
> > On 2019-01-20 10:15:53 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Indeed, the main reason why I'm interested in keeping this old dinosaur
> >> going at all is that it is so different from other platforms in terms
> >> of what we can a
Andres Freund writes:
> On 2019-01-20 10:15:53 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Indeed, the main reason why I'm interested in keeping this old dinosaur
>> going at all is that it is so different from other platforms in terms
>> of what we can assume about spinlocks and atomic ops. Keeps us honest.
> FW
Hi,
On 2019-01-20 10:15:53 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund writes:
> > HPPA doesn't hardware instructions for atomic ops other than
> > test-and-set IIRC.
>
> Indeed, the main reason why I'm interested in keeping this old dinosaur
> going at all is that it is so different from other platf
Andres Freund writes:
> On 2019-01-19 23:39:37 -0800, Jesse Zhang wrote:
>> Atomic ops (compare-and-exchange) might be a harder dependency to shed
>> for libuv. Does the fallback onto compiler intrinsics
>> (__sync_val_compare_and_swap, or on GCC 4.7+,
>> __atomic_compare_exchange_n) not work here
Hi,
On 2019-01-19 23:39:37 -0800, Jesse Zhang wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 8:50 AM Tom Lane wrote:
> >
> > Failed miserably. It turns out cmake has a hard dependency on libuv
> > which (a) has a hard dependency on atomic ops and (b) according to its
> > own docs, doesn't really care about an
On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 8:50 AM Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Failed miserably. It turns out cmake has a hard dependency on libuv
> which (a) has a hard dependency on atomic ops and (b) according to its
> own docs, doesn't really care about any platforms other than
> Linux/macOS/Windows and maybe FreeBSD.>
I tried to build cmake on OpenBSD running on my old HPPA hardware,
not because I cared about cmake per se but because it's a dependency
of something I did care about. Failed miserably. It turns out cmake has
a hard dependency on libuv which (a) has a hard dependency on atomic ops
and (b) accordin
