On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Jonah H. Harris wrote:
I agree. I'd prefer to know exactly what's going on in the atomic
code (rather than having the compiler take care of it for me).
Similarly, it's pretty rare to use GCC on anything but Linux and the
*BSDs as each proprietary UNIX vendor has their own c
On 9/23/07, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It doesn't seem very interesting given that (a) we already have working
> code for this area, and (b) gcc is not our only target compiler.
I agree. I'd prefer to know exactly what's going on in the atomic
code (rather than having the compiler take
"Florian G. Pflug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> When reading Tom's comment about the bug in my "use latestCompletedXid
> to slightly speed up TransactionIdIsInProgress" patch, I remembered that
> I recently stumbled across GCC builtins for atomic test-and-test and
> read/write reordering barrier
