[M3devel] suggestion for "atomic ops"

[Tony Hosking]

With the gcc-based backend we get exactly that behavior.

On 17 Feb 2009, at 11:00, Jay wrote:

>
> [replaced m3commit with m3devel..]
>
> Let a code generator advertise that it doesn't support them.
> And if so, instead generate a call to some set of functions.
> I realize this fallback could be implemented in the code generators  
> themselves.
> Windows has various "interlocked" functions that should make this  
> easy.
>
> Thanks,
> - Jay