4 Jul
2006
4 Jul
'06
5:59 p.m.
This code is valid for Solaris 10 update 1 (1/06 release) and later, including OpenSolaris.
The code is valid for the original Solaris 10 GA (3/05) if the following patches are applied:
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The code is not valid for Solaris 9 or older unless Sun decides to release patches for the older operating systems.
Hold on, what do you mean? Surely the atomic intrinsics we've written will work on ANY version of Solaris, since they only use HW primitives? Are you talking about using the os provided ones? Why would you do that if you have the assembly for the former?