Question about atomic builtin functions in gcc for rtems.

[Marcos Díaz]

Hi, i was using some c++11 concurrency classes on ARM (with gcc 4.9.2) that
have an underlying use of libgcc atomic functions, for
example __gnu_cxx::__atomic_add_dispatch. In its implementation, (in the
file gcc-sources/libstdc++-v3/include/ext/atomicity.h) I can see that the
macro _GLIBCXX_ATOMIC_BUILTINS is not defined, and therefore the builtin
implementation of __atomic_fetch_add is not used. Instead, the mutex
implementation is used which makes it significantly slower.
As far as I could see, if I explicitly call one of these atomic built-in
functions they work ok and the correct atomic assembly is emitted (using
ARM's ldrex and strex instructions).
 So, the question is why this _GLIBCXX_ATOMIC_BUILTINS macro is disabled.
is there a reason why we aren't using the atomic builtins, or I need to
enable it. How can we do the enabling? Is the implementation incomplete?
Thanks

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