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
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