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McIntyre: Scanning for assembly code in Free Software packages

Posted Apr 2, 2013 15:08 UTC (Tue) by stevenb (guest, #11536)
In reply to: McIntyre: Scanning for assembly code in Free Software packages by peter-b
Parent article: McIntyre: Scanning for assembly code in Free Software packages

Ah, you mean GCC 4.7 and later?

/* compile with "-S -O2 -mcx16"
and look for cmpxchg16b in the output */
typedef int TItype __attribute__ ((mode (TI)));

TItype m_128;

void test(TItype x_128)
{
m_128 = __sync_val_compare_and_swap (&m_128, x_128, m_128);
}

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McIntyre: Scanning for assembly code in Free Software packages

Posted Apr 2, 2013 15:22 UTC (Tue) by stevenb (guest, #11536) [Link]

Actually, at least GCC 4.5 and GCC 4.6 also. cmpxchg16 support was implemented more than 6 years ago: http://gcc.gnu.org/r122884

McIntyre: Scanning for assembly code in Free Software packages

Posted Apr 3, 2013 17:01 UTC (Wed) by peter-b (subscriber, #66996) [Link]

Bizarrely, the GCC on the Ubuntu workstation provided by my university lacked CMPXCHG16B support as recently as a year ago. Fortunately if newer versions do support it my assembly will never get called, so it's not as if I need to change my code...