If C11 atomics are not going into 4.9, then comments made to reject http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58016 no longer hold and I would ask that the resolution of both it and http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53769 be reconsidered.
Jeff On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Andrew MacLeod <amacl...@redhat.com> wrote: > I don't have the time to finish pushing through the C11 atomic work for this > release. Much of the remaining parts are in the parser, which I know very > little about, and I won't be able to do a sufficient job in the time > remaining, so I am switching my focus to the interface work and getting the > header files re-factored before we end stage 1. > > I have put all the work to date in a branch 'C11-atomic' which is based off > of trunk on Sept 25th. I have detailed the current status as well as what > else needs doing on the C11 atomic wiki page > http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Atomic/C11 > > I have also uploaded the specific patches that have been applied to the > branch, along with their revision numbers. they are also on that wiki page. > > The patches are very similar to what I posted here > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2013-08/msg00420.html > I addressed jsm's basic comments, but did not address the larger issues of > warnings/errors and converting lvalues into rvals, and other front end > issues. I also removed the places where i tried to treat the atomic > qualifier like it was volatile.. I think that was wrong and was masking > other issues. > > If this work is important to someone else, you are welcome to pick it up. > My parser expertise is minimal, and most of the remaining work is in that > part of the compiler. The facilities are provided already to do the > expansion of atomic variable into the appropriate sequences, they just need > to be called from the right places in the parser. > > I may well get back to this next spring for the next release, but for now I > am mothballing it until I have the time to learn that parts I need to learn > to finish it. > > Andrew -- Jeff Hammond jeff.scie...@gmail.com
