[Mesa-dev] [PATCH v5] gallium/auxiliary: add inc and dec alternative with return (v3)

[Patrick Baggett]

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>
> Looking at u_atomic.h there is a section that uses
> PIPE_ATOMIC_ASM_MSVC_X86 and has explicit assembly, and there's a
> section that uses PIPE_ATOMIC_MSVC_INTRINSIC and has intrinsics. No
> clue whatsoever what the difference between them is, but presumably it
> doesn't exist solely for the purpose of annoying developers...
>

I can't think of a good reason; I would be interested in knowing why. Last
time I checked, MSVC is terrible at optimizing around __asm{} blocks and if
I recall, only x86 (i.e. 32-bit) supports inline assembly. This is a bit
off-topic though...


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>   -ilia
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