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Re: __HAVE_64B_ATOMICS and alignment


On Thu, 2017-04-13 at 07:10 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 11/28/2016 12:51 PM, Torvald Riegel wrote:
> >> This means that for an LP32 architecture such as i686 which could
> >> conceivable provide 64-bit atomics, we might try to perform an atomic
> >> operation on a potentially misaligned uint64_t value.
> > i686 has no 64b atomic loads or stores.
> 
> double loads and stores via the FPU are atomic, and they preserve all 
> bit patterns.

I believe that the precise status on this is that we believe that they
are atomic, but it's not explicitly guaranteed.

Either way, glibc does not provide 64b atomics on i686.  If we would
change that, we would have to review data structure declarations,
including alignment, of data that could be the target of such 64b
atomics.


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