296879 - PowerPC Linux should support native PowerPC atomic instructions (lwarx/stwcx.)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, enhancement)

Description

[kevdig]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050601
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050601

See 296878, which was filed against NSPR for the same reason

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[kevdig]

patches have been attached to 296878

Comment 2

[Brendan Eich [:brendan]]

Dependends on, not blocks, relation.

Anyone want to adapt the patch in bug 296878 to jslock.c's js_CompareAndSwap,
for Mac OS X?

/be

Comment 3

[Brendan Eich [:brendan]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Dependends on, not blocks, relation.
> 
> Anyone want to adapt the patch in bug 296878 to jslock.c's js_CompareAndSwap,
> for Mac OS X?

Clue to self: read patch first, then comment.

Looks like this bug will be fixed when its dependency is fixed.  :-)

/be

Comment 4

[DaNiMoTh]

Hi,

I added a patch which adds this support here. The only thing left is endianness in data_pack.cc

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=504649&action=diff

Comment 5

[Luke Wagner [:luke]]

Not a tier 1 platform anymore.