[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6] eal/x86: add 128-bit atomic compare exchange

[Eads, Gage]

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> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas at monjalon.net]
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> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6] eal/x86: add 128-bit atomic compare
> exchange
> 
> 04/04/2019 14:08, Thomas Monjalon:
> > 04/04/2019 13:47, Ferruh Yigit:
> > > .../dpdk/x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/include/rte_atomic_64.h:223:3:
> > > error: ISO C does not support ‘__int128’ types [-Werror=pedantic]
> >
> > We can try this kind of workaround (disable pedantic locally):
> >
> https://github.com/HowardHinnant/date/pull/38/commits/177032852d5b46
> 14
> > 112ca1ab3ef42d6b41824816
> 
> Or better:
> __extension__ typedef __int128 int128;
> 

Taking that one step further -- RTE_STD_C11 evaluates to __extension__ (when the STD C version is sufficiently old).