!======================================================================= ! solaris_sparc.s -- compare and swap for solaris_sparc !======================================================================= ! Fortunately the Sun compiler can process cpp conditionals with -P ! '/' is the comment for x86, while '!' is the comment for Sparc #if defined(__sparcv9) || defined(__sparc) .section ".text" .align 8 .skip 24 .align 4 .global pg_atomic_cas pg_atomic_cas: ! "cas" only works on sparcv9 and sparcv8plus chips, and ! requies a compiler targeting these CPUs. It will fail ! on a compiler targeting sparcv8, and of course will not ! be understood by a sparcv8 CPU. gcc continues to use ! "ldstub" because it targets sparcv7. ! ! There is actually a trick for embedding "cas" in a ! sparcv8-targeted compiler, but it can only be run ! on a sparcv8plus/v9 cpus: ! ! http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/on/usr/src/lib/libc/sparc/threads/sparc.il ! #if defined(__sparcv9) || defined(__sparcv8plus) cas [%o0],%o2,%o1 #else ldstub [%o0],%o1 #endif mov %o1,%o0 retl nop .type pg_atomic_cas,2 .size pg_atomic_cas,(.-pg_atomic_cas) #endif