23 Oct
2012
23 Oct
'12
12:25 p.m.
On 23/10/12 12:21, Tim Blechmann wrote:
imo, all ia32 machines without cmpxchg8b should belong to a museum, and we could introduce a macro like BOOST_ATOMIC_NO_CMPXCHG8B if we really care of compiling for any of those machines.
thoughts?
I think the library should be fair and compile for the platform it is requested for. The question of the default target platform should be directed to compiler or Debian dev team.
in theory i'd agree with you, but i doubt that it is easy to convince the debian devs to change their defaults ... and then we (well i) may still have problems with other linux distributions, maybe mingw/cygwin ...
Why not instruct the compiler to build for the platform you want to build for instead?