Re: [boost] Solaris versions of sp_counted_base and atomic_countby Michael van der Westhuizen

4 Jul 2006

      Hi,

On 7/4/06, Tomas Puverle <Tomas.Puverle@morganstanley.com> wrote:
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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?
Yes, I'm talking about the OS provided intrinsics. The code I provided
in sp_counted_base_solaris only uses OS provided intrinsics.

Inline assembly versions will, of course, work anywhere that the
assembly is valid.

Michael