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Re: [PATCH] Add native windows on arm64 support

Dave Cramer <davecramer@postgres.rocks> — 2024-09-24T18:31:10Z

On Tue, 13 Feb 2024 at 16:28, Dave Cramer <davecramer@postgres.rocks> wrote:

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> On Tue, 13 Feb 2024 at 12:52, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> On 2024-02-13 12:49:33 -0500, Dave Cramer wrote:
>> > > I think I might have been on to something - if my human emulation of a
>> > > preprocessor isn't wrong, we'd end up with
>> > >
>> > > #define S_UNLOCK(lock)  \
>> > >         do { _ReadWriteBarrier(); (*(lock)) = 0; } while (0)
>> > >
>> > > on msvc + arm. And that's entirely insufficient - _ReadWriteBarrier()
>> just
>> > > limits *compiler* level reordering, not CPU level reordering.  I
>> think it's
>> > > even insufficient on x86[-64], but it's definitely insufficient on
>> arm.
>> > >
>> > In fact ReadWriteBarrier has been deprecated _ReadWriteBarrier |
>> Microsoft
>> > Learn
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>> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/intrinsics/readwritebarrier?view=msvc-170
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>> I'd just ignore that, that's just pushing towards more modern stuff that's
>> more applicable to C++ than C.
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>> > I did try using atomic_thread_fence as per atomic_thread_fence -
>> > cppreference.com
>> > <https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/atomic/atomic_thread_fence>
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>> The semantics of atomic_thread_fence are, uh, very odd.  I'd just use
>> MemoryBarrier().
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>> #define S_UNLOCK(lock)  \
>     do { MemoryBarrier(); (*(lock)) = 0; } while (0)
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> #endif
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> Has no effect.
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> I have no idea if that is what you meant that I should do ?
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> Dave
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Revisiting this:

Andrew, can you explain the difference between ninja test (which passes)
and what the build farm does. The buildfarm crashes.

Dave