On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Larry Gritz <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 2, 2013, at 11:17 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: >> I guess the question I should ask is if there is a proper way to >> support PPC? Perhaps threading can be forced to off in the cmake >> config if it detects PPC/PPC64? > > We can turn off threading *within* OIIO, but we'd still be in trouble if the > app using it is multithreaded and calls OIIO from more than one thread. > > But I think we can fix it. > > Do you have access to one of these ppc boxes? > > $ gcc --version
I don't have access to a box but I checked the build server and it looks like F17 and above is using at least GCC 4.7.X. > what does that say? If it's a recent enough version of gcc, we can probably > use the gcc intrinsics and make it all work. If not, I'll do some hunting > with Uncle Google and see if we can find code to implement the locks. Thanks for looking into this! Richard _______________________________________________ Oiio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openimageio.org/listinfo.cgi/oiio-dev-openimageio.org
