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x86, yes, and the limitations on the toolchains you can use is weird and bad.

When you say "limitations", I'm not sure what you mean. I wonder if there's a misunderstanding here - the matrix describes the toolchains which are supported out-of-the-box, i.e. build files for them are provided, and they have all been tested and should work.

It's not a matrix of the ONLY platforms which CAN work. Is that what you're thinking? Other platforms might well need the porting abstraction layer to be implemented (the Intel compiler might offer a different set of atomic intrinsics, for example), but that's what it's there for.

It's not very clear, then. Reading the page leads me to believe that if x is my toolchain then y won't work, and the idea that such a thing could even be possible for your library speaks very poorly for it. I suggest tweaking it if this is not the case.

In any case, I did re-review the library today and I'll still pass on it because I'm very opinionated about C and this library doesn't match my opinions.

And I would like to see ARM64 support before I depend on this sort of thing, too, for what it's worth.

Well, to be fair! the page does say this immediately above the matrix - "The following toolchains and processors are supported out-of-the-box"

However, this is certainly not fully explanitative, and of course is just one line immediately above a large and eye-catching matrix.

I will change it, to make it more clear, and more eye-catching.

Regarding ARM64, it's something I want very much. I will finally have time for it now 7.1.0 is out. I Googled a bit just the other day and there are Pi-like ARM64 dev boards out there now, so I'm going to get one.

Which leaves me needing a SPARC dev board, and a POWERPC dev board, and an x86 dev board, and a MIPS64 dev board, and a... :-)

By the way, the Pi3 had ARM64 cores.

I didn't know! thanks! I have a Pi 2 right now for ARM32, I'm completely happy with it.

There is no supported 64 bit kernel yet, though.

Wonder if you can use something like this:

http://elinux.org/Test_Lab_Architecture

to test on someone else's hardware?

I hope so.

I applied to the GCC compiler farm late last year, but received a reply only after so long a time that I'd deleted the key pair I'd submitted because I thought nothing was going to happen - and my efforts to get back in have yet been unanswered.

The GCC compile farm isn't for intensive testing or benchmarking, though (which is what you need for lock-free, to try to catch race conditions) - that test lab sounds more interesting.

I have to say though having your own dev boards which are yours and only yours and which you can hammer endlessly is very convenient. It's actually just occurred to me I can leave all the devs boards permanently running the test suite...

OTOH, I don't think I can get small, portable dev boards for all the platforms I care about, so at least for some architectures, a third-party farm is probably the only way.

Probably the most pressing requirement though is access to a Mac. Right now there are no build files for that platform.

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