On Thu, 29 Apr 2021, [utf-8] OndÅej Surý wrote:
> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2021 13:35:32 +0200 > From: "[utf-8] OndÅej Surý" <ond...@isc.org> > To: BIND Users <bind-users@lists.isc.org> > Subject: Deprecating BIND 9.18+ on Windows (or making it community > improved and supported) > > Hi, > > we've been discussing the /subj for quite some time and we are either > thinking about deprecating the BIND 9 on Windows completely or just handing > it over to the "community supportedl"evel. > > There are couple reasons for the move: > > * Neither the VisualStudio 2017 which we use nor VS2019 supports the C11 > features we extensively use (stdatomic.h) which makes us to write a horrible > horrible shims on top of Windows API Does bind 9 need C11 atomics ? I would suggest what hardware are you running bind 9 on ? If its a single core processor probably not, a dual core or higher i couldn't say. If it's a 8 core Intel CPU with predictive branching , one definitely needs C11 atomics, otherwise your Boeing 747 might disappear from the sky. Then one could argue oh, i have this AMD multi-core CPU which doesn't have these issues. And what about atomic problems on a Quantum computer ? So far Quantum computers are not for sale at Amazon, and of the Windows Quantum release on these machines the public has no knowledge. For further background info see the section "Does the kernel need C11 atomics?" inside the article "C11 atomic variables and the kernel" By Jonathan Corbet, February 18, 2014 https://lwn.net/Articles/586838/ Best Regards, Robert -- Robert M. Stockmann - RHCE Network Engineer - UNIX/Linux Specialist crashrecovery.org st...@stokkie.net _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list ISC funds the development of this software with paid support subscriptions. Contact us at https://www.isc.org/contact/ for more information. bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
