Hi,
On 2022-10-27 19:44:13 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Turns out they have a pretty cute workaround for it, on HPPA and a couple of
> other atomics-less arches they still support. They've written short
> sequences that have the effect of CAS and are designed to store to memory
> only at the end. To
I wrote:
> But wait, you say, what about mamba-nee-gaur, my HPPA dinosaur?
sigh ... s/mamba/chickadee/. Got too many NetBSD machines, perhaps.
regards, tom lane
Thomas Munro writes:
> We have fallback code for computers that don't have 32 bit atomic ops.
> Of course all modern ISAs have 32 bit atomics, but various comments
> imagine that a new architecture might be born that we don't have
> support for yet, so the fallback provides a way to bring a new sy
Hi,
We have fallback code for computers that don't have 32 bit atomic ops.
Of course all modern ISAs have 32 bit atomics, but various comments
imagine that a new architecture might be born that we don't have
support for yet, so the fallback provides a way to bring a new system
up by implementing o
