dbus 1.2.16

[Schmottlach, Glenn]

So this assumption is that the GCC intrinsic functions for atomic operations are valid on all other platforms (e.g. ARM, SH4, PPC, etc...) but not (apparently) for i386 class processors and below. Therefore, has long as GCC generates good code for the processors I'm interested in (ARM at the moment), all is good, right?

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Subject: Re: dbus 1.2.16

Em Quinta-feira 16 Julho 2009, às 14:57:07, Schmottlach, Glenn escreveu:
> > - distributions will not be able to compile D-Bus for non-486 processors.
>
> Perhaps I'm missing something here, but does this imply that 1.2.16+
> releases going forward will *only* support the x86 architecture? A lot of
> us (embedded) folks are using ARM on Linux and/or QNX systems. Will these
> platforms still be supported?
>
> If platforms other than x86 are no longer going to be supported, then I
> guess I'd have a real issue with this. I hope I'm just confused here.

You're missing something :-)

The point is that the patch by Lennart introduces the use of the GCC compiler 
intrinsics for atomic operations. The problem is that the intrinsics compile 
on i386, but don't work.
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