Claudio Natoli wrote: > > > Tom Lane writes: > > [cvs is your friend...] It appears to have been added as part of the > > MinGW porting work last May. I don't have much faith in it; as far as > > I heard the MinGW port never got further than making the client-side > > code work, and so this file has no real-world testing. > > FWIW, I've done a code walk-through, and it looks ok (lack of real-world > testing notwithstanding), and actually does use the Win32 sema set. The only > real problem is that it calls ShmemInitStruct in semget, which ultimately > gets us into bootstrap hell (without native spinlocks, at least). > > Also, as far as using it in the "hardware independent" version of spin-locks > go, it makes kernel calls, which, as spin.c comments: "is too slow to be > very useful".
Yep, native gcc TAS assembler should work fine on MinGW with gcc. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
