Re: Extended Prefetching using Asynchronous IO - proposal and patch

On 05/31/14 20:44, johnlumby wrote:
> On 05/30/14 09:36, Claudio Freire wrote:
>
> Good point. I have included the guts of your little test program
> (modified to do polling) into the existing autoconf test program
> that decides on the
> #define USE_AIO_ATOMIC_BUILTIN_COMP_SWAP.
> See config/c-library.m4.
> I hope this goes some way to answer your concern about robustness,
> as at least now if the implementation changes in some way that
> renders the polling ineffective, it will be caught in configure.
>
>
I meant to add that by including this test, which involves a fork(),
in the autoconf tester, on Windows
USE_AIO_ATOMIC_BUILTIN_COMP_SWAP would always by un-defined.
(But could then be defined manually if someone wanted to give it a try)