These intrinsics work exactly as all other atomic_fetch_* intrinsics and allow to create *atomicrmw* with ordering.
Updated the clang-extensions document.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D46386
llvm-svn: 332193
Prior to GCC 4.4, __sync_fetch_and_nand was implemented as:
{ tmp = *ptr; *ptr = ~tmp & value; return tmp; }
but this was changed in GCC 4.4 to be:
{ tmp = *ptr; *ptr = ~(tmp & value); return tmp; }
in response to this change, support for sync_fetch_and_nand (and
sync_nand_and_fetch) was removed in r99522 in order to avoid miscompiling code
depending on the old semantics. However, at this point:
1. Many years have passed, and the amount of code relying on the old
semantics is likely smaller.
2. Through the work of many contributors, all LLVM backends have been updated
such that "atomicrmw nand" provides the newer GCC 4.4+ semantics (this process
was complete July of 2014 (added to the release notes in r212635).
3. The lack of this intrinsic is now a needless impediment to porting codes
from GCC to Clang (I've now seen several examples of this).
It is true, however, that we still set GNUC_MINOR to 2 (corresponding to GCC
4.2). To compensate for this, and to address the original concern regarding
code relying on the old semantics, I've added a warning that specifically
details the fact that the semantics have changed and that we provide the newer
semantics.
Fixes PR8842.
llvm-svn: 218905
This is a minimal fix for clang. I'll soon add support for generating
weak variants when requested, but that's not really necessary for the
LLVM change in isolation.
llvm-svn: 210907
There are still a few issues which need to be resolved with code generation for atomic load and store, so I'm not converting the places which need those for now.
I'm not entirely sure what to do about __builtin_llvm_memory_barrier: the fence instruction doesn't expose all the possibilities which can be expressed by __builtin_llvm_memory_barrier. I would appreciate hearing from anyone who is using this intrinsic.
llvm-svn: 139216
Elena Demikhovsky