char_acquire_release_volatile.h

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/* This file adds definitions appropriate for environments in which     */
/* volatile load of a given type has acquire semantics, and volatile    */
/* store of a given type has release semantics.  This is arguably       */
/* supposed to be true with the standard Itanium software conventions.  */
/* Empirically gcc/ia64 does some reordering of ordinary operations     */
/* around volatiles even when we think it should not.  GCC v3.3 and     */
/* earlier could reorder a volatile store with another store.  As of    */
/* March 2005, gcc pre-4 reuses some previously computed common         */
/* subexpressions across a volatile load; hence, we now add compiler    */
/* barriers for gcc.                                                    */
 
#ifndef AO_HAVE_GCC_BARRIER
  /* TODO: Check GCC version (if workaround not needed for modern GCC). */
# if defined(__GNUC__)
#   define AO_GCC_BARRIER() AO_compiler_barrier()
# else
#   define AO_GCC_BARRIER() (void)0
# endif
# define AO_HAVE_GCC_BARRIER
#endif
 
AO_INLINE unsignedchar
AO_char_load_acquire(const volatile unsignedchar *addr)
{
  unsignedchar result = *addr;
 
  /* A normal volatile load generates an ld.acq (on IA-64).     */
  AO_GCC_BARRIER();
  return result;
}
#define AO_HAVE_char_load_acquire
 
AO_INLINE void
AO_char_store_release(volatile unsignedchar *addr, unsignedchar new_val)
{
  AO_GCC_BARRIER();
  /* A normal volatile store generates an st.rel (on IA-64).    */
  *addr = new_val;
}
#define AO_HAVE_char_store_release