Subject: Re: [boost] [release/atomic] request permission to merge 86144
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-10-14 20:11:03
On Tuesday 15 October 2013 12:05:55 Gavin Lambert wrote:
>
> To rephrase this slightly: the patch and commit as current should
> improve behaviour while doing no harm (except possibly when compiling
> for < Pentium, but MSVC doesn't let you do that any more anyway).
>
> It probably could be further improved on, given other changes made to
> trunk in the meantime, however (such as closing that <Pentium loophole).
Boost.Atomic should be working for 486 as well, and MSVC (at least, older
versions) have a switch to enable that target. I think, it was actually the
default on some older MSVC, but I'm not sure.