From: Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Serious bug inn GUILE rational handling
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 13:27:39 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mz5d7zn8.fsf@raven.defaultvalue.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <458E735D.9010806@xs4all.nl> (Han-Wen Nienhuys's message of "Sun, 24 Dec 2006 13:32:29 +0100")
Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl> writes:
> We seem to have something like it (FETCH_STORE) but no
> compare-exchange.
>
> Glib's gatomic.c does have an enormous bunch of cmp & exch
> operations in assembler for various platforms.
>
> Would it be an option to link GUILE to glib?
Without having looked carefuly at what might be involved, if we do
decide that we might want atomic operations of some kind, then I think
I'd want to investigate how hard it might be to add the operations
directly to guile.
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-24 11:32 Serious bug inn GUILE rational handling Bill Schottstaedt
2006-12-24 11:45 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2006-12-24 12:32 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2006-12-24 21:27 ` Rob Browning [this message]
2006-12-25 21:21 ` Kevin Ryde
2006-12-29 2:52 ` Neil Jerram
2006-12-29 12:39 ` Serious bug in " Bill Schottstaedt
2006-12-30 20:42 ` Neil Jerram
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