From: Ivan Maidanski <ivmai@mail.ru>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 06:23:44 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: Add AO_DISABLE_GCC_ATOMICS, AO_PREFER_BUILTIN_ATOMICS macros to configure
X-Git-Tag: v7.6.0~215
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=30c0456f7568b4b9e6212f1a05b863dd18c4e471;p=libatomic_ops

Add AO_DISABLE_GCC_ATOMICS, AO_PREFER_BUILTIN_ATOMICS macros to configure

* configure.ac (AO_DISABLE_GCC_ATOMICS, AO_PREFER_BUILTIN_ATOMICS):
Declare and document (using AH_TEMPLATE).
---

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 32764aa..758cd58 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -143,6 +143,12 @@ AH_TEMPLATE([AO_USE_SYNC_CAS_BUILTIN],
 AH_TEMPLATE([AO_WEAK_DOUBLE_CAS_EMULATION],
         [Emulate double-width CAS via pthread locking in case of no hardware \
          support (only gcc/x86_64, the emulation is unsafe)])
+AH_TEMPLATE([AO_DISABLE_GCC_ATOMICS],
+        [Do not use C11 atomic intrinsics even if available])
+AH_TEMPLATE([AO_PREFER_BUILTIN_ATOMICS],
+        [Prefer C11 atomic intrinsics over assembly-based implementation \
+        even in case of inefficient implementation (do not use assembly for \
+        any atomic_ops primitive if C11/GCC atomic intrinsics available)])
 
 AC_DEFINE(_REENTRANT, 1, [Required define if using POSIX threads.])