[systemd-devel] udev-212 and up on Sparc v8

[Mike Gilbert]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Lennart Poettering
<lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 23.06.14 16:11, Samuli Suominen (ssuominen at gentoo.org) wrote:
>
>> > Thanks, but please work with the gcc developers to solve this
>> > generically for all gcc users, instead of work around this limitation in
>> > every individual project independently. It's certainly time much better
>> > spent.
>>
>> IIRC, he told me when we discussed at IRC that systemd-udevd was the
>> showstopper, and rest of the 'core' system
>> built fine.
>
> Sure. Again. It's sounds like time much better spend if you solve this
> atomic ops problems for all users of it (and believe me there are a
> number, especially outside of the 'core' system. PulseAudio for example
> being one which hwoever has ugly fallbacks to libatomic_ops, which are
> much slower and uglier, and pull in a dep).
>

I just want to point out that the GCC manual labels the __sync_*
functions as being "legacy" functions, which would imply that a more
modern alternative exists.

Are they referring to atomic variables in C11, or something else?