From: | Adriaan Joubert <a(dot)joubert(at)albourne(dot)com> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Michael Richards <miker(at)fastmail(dot)ca>, pgsql-patches(at)postgreSQL(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Re: Hack to make postgres compile on Dec 4.0f with GCC |
Date: | 2000-06-12 05:15:18 |
Message-ID: | 394471E6.83E067BF@albourne.com |
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Can someone make a suggestion here?
>
> > Hi.
> >
> > Here is a patch I hacked together. I didn't understand the TAS thing, and
> > it appeared to be the cause of the problem. I hacked the code up by
> > commenting out the assembly TAS provided and inserting the semaphore
> > macros for the non-gcc alpha version. Perhaps someone with expertise in
> > this area could assist in fixing the provided TAS.
Yep, Arrigo looked at the TAS code for Alpha-Linux (it is commented out for
DEC Unix) and came to the conclusion that it probably only worked on specific
configurations and definitely not on multi-processor machines. He has been
trying to write the code himself, but it turns out to be extraordinarily hard
to get this working properly on Alpha (espec. multi-processor machines). I
believe he is currently trying to interest somebody in Digital in this
problem. Until a proper solution has been found, it is probably safer to just
stick to the semaphores.
Adriaan
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