On 3/10/2020 4:35 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
On 2020-03-08 20:59, Eliot Moss wrote:
On 3/8/2020 10:29 PM, Eliot Moss wrote:
This is probably to the gcc maintainer ...
I am running on a processor that has compare/exchange 128-bit (cx16 capability),
and I compiler with -mcx16 and -latomic. I'm on the latest release cygwin gcc
(9.2.0-3, I believe) and the corresponding libatomic. I have a program with
this in it:
__atomic_compare_exchange((__int128 *)&s1, (__int128 *)&z, (__int128 *)&s2, 0,
__ATOMIC_SEQ_CST, __ATOMIC_SEQ_CST);
This compiles to a call (nice if it would inline, but ...) to
__atomic_compare_exchange_16, which uses mutex's, not the CMPXCHG16B
instruction I was hoping for. Note I am doing dynamic linking,
which on at least one other platform results in dynamic selection
of a lib_at implementation of the compare/exchange, which does use
the desired instruction.
Is this a limitation of cygwin gcc, or should I be doing something
different to achieve the desired effect?
Obviously it would be best not to going an asm inline if I can avoid it,
but I suppose I can dig into the libatomic source to get the right
incantation for it if need be ...
A quick followup: I was able to get __sync_val_compare_and_swap_16 to work
(and its bool form). That will do for now, though of course it's deprecated.
You just needed to go to the next info page:
$ info gcc __atomic
and use:
#include <stdatomic.h>
extern bool __atomic_compare_exchange ( TYPE *ptr,
TYPE *expected,
TYPE *desired,
bool weak,
int success_memorder,
int failure_memorder);
or higher level macro:
atomic_compare_exchange_strong(PTR, VAL, DES)
defined in /lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/*/include/stdatomic.h
That is what I was already doing :-) .... it compiles and runs,
landing at libat_compare_exchange_16, which uses mutexes, not the
16-byte compare-exchange instruction. So how do I get the compare-
exchange instruction to be used in the library?
Regards - EM
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