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Re: Spinlocks

by Felipe Sateler :: Rate this Message:

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Pthreads-w32 (which is what I think you are using on windows) claims to
support it. Can someone from the mac world confirm if they are available?

El 30/04/09 01:44 Michael Gogins escribió:

> Insofar as I recall, which may not be all that far, the pthread
> spinlocks were not available on all platforms.
>
> if they are, they would be better, I think.
>
> Regards,
> Mike
>
> On 4/29/09, Felipe Sateler <fsateler@...> wrote:
> > I have received a report that csound does not build on SPARC machines due
> > to some issues with __sync_* intrinsics. While I am still trying to debug
> > the issue, the question of why these intrinsics were used in the first
> > place was raised. In fact, we already use pthread, and pthread provides
> > spinlocks too. Is there any reason for not using the pthread ones?
> >
> > Saludos,
> > Felipe Sateler


Saludos,
Felipe Sateler


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