On Dec 4, 2013, at 6:02 AM, Yann Ylavic <[email protected]> wrote: > > So it seems to have changed from "use native atomics when explicitely > specified AND the cpu is compatible" to "use native atomics when explicitely > specified OR the CPU is compatible but not i[456]86 " (probably to not have > to declare new capable cpus as they arrive). > > Was this intented?
After all this time, I think using generic atomics should *only* be done iff --enable-nonportable-atomics=no
