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Re: [Qemu-devel] [FreeBSD] Host build i386 failing to build aarch64 targ
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [FreeBSD] Host build i386 failing to build aarch64 targets |
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Mon, 21 Mar 2016 12:23:48 +0100 |
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On 21/03/2016 10:35, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > x86 can actually do 64-bit atomic loads and stores through the FPU, but
> > I'm not sure about other 32-bit targets?
>
> As I say, ppc32 linux is one that can't -- see commit 8a5956ad6392f1155
> for last time this came up.
Yes, I remember that. Loads and stores are different from RMW
operations, though.
> Ideally we should put a compile-time assert in the atomic ops that
> the data being operated on isn't larger than sizeof(void*) so that
> this is a compile time error on all 32-bit hosts rather than just
> a small subset of them.
Yes, I will do it if Alex doesn't beat me to it.
Paolo
Re: [Qemu-devel] [FreeBSD] Host build i386 failing to build aarch64 targets, Paolo Bonzini, 2016/03/21