On 26 March 2013 11:01, Simon Toedt <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a request: > While AST and UWIN are awesome it'll be nice to have more detailed, > uptodate documentation with examples. Please don't be offended but > there are many great things in AST and UWIN which are little known > because the documentation is, well, very RISC-like.
Well, what can I say? David and Glenn are researchers and run AST and UWIN like a research project. What's needed here is someone else who writes documentation from a programmers pov. > > Simon > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Simon Toedt <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 10:29 AM > Subject: Re: [ast-developers] Signal trap loop behaviour... > To: Glenn Fowler <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected], [email protected], > [email protected] > > > On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 4:19 AM, Glenn Fowler <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 02:13:25 +0100 Roland Mainz wrote: >>> BTW: I forgot to explain why I suggested a single-linked list as FIFO >>> queue... the idea is to _not_ disable signals when the siginfo is >>> processed in the signal callback... instead signals can be received >>> even while the signal callback is processed... this is safe as long >>> the insertion into the single-linked list is done using atomic >>> instructions ([1]). >> >>> [1]=Erm... Glenn: (Without digging around) Does ASO have a >>> compare-and-swap for pointers ? >> >> void* asocasptr(void volatile*, void*, void*); >> >> and its documented! > > Where is it documented? The only reference I found is > http://www2.research.att.com/~gsf/man/man3/aso.html which only lists > its name but no usage example or further description which flavor of > CAS is implemented. > > Simon > _______________________________________________ > ast-developers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-developers Ced -- Cedric Blancher <[email protected]> Institute Pasteur _______________________________________________ ast-developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-developers
