Something needs to happen with shared, and soon.

[deadalnix]

Le 14/11/2012 02:36, Alex Rønne Petersen a écrit :
> On 14-11-2012 02:33, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 11/13/2012 3:43 PM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
>>> FWIW, these are the types and type categories I'd expect shared
>>> load/store to
>>> work on, on any architecture:
>>>
>>> * ubyte, byte
>>> * ushort, short
>>> * uint, int
>>> * ulong, long
>>> * float, double
>>> * pointers
>>> * slices
>>> * references
>>> * function pointers
>>> * delegates
>>>
>>
>> Not going to portably work on long, ulong, double, slices, or delegates.
>>
>> (The compiler should issue an error where it won't work, and allow it
>> where it does, letting the user decide what to do about the non-working
>> cases.)
>
> I amended that (see my other post). 8-byte loads/stores can be done
> atomically on all relevant architectures today. Andrei linked a page a
> while back that explained how to do it on x86, ARM, MIPS, and PowerPC
> (if memory serves), but I can't seem to find it again...
>

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/cpp/cpp0xmappings.html