Hello, we still have problems with AO_stack* feature on ppc/ppc64. The testsuite for AO_stack* calls fails on 'test_stack' application. As these atomic operations are low-level and hard to make portable, this behaviour is quite expected in early phases. Upstream has been working on this problem recently: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.garbage-collection.boehmgc/5238/match=test_stack But the solution does not help us 100%. I have tried to find some workaround/fix, but unsuccessful yet. I have also contacted upstream for help and I'll work on this in future. But now I tend to at least document *now* that this feature does not work properly in RHEL. I have tried test on several PowerPCs, and I know only that it does not work on all ppcs (on some of them testsuite passes). Pavel
I've found nasty workaround, proposed upstream .. but it needs more investigation. http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?group=gmane.comp.programming.garbage-collection.boehmgc&article=5486 Pavel
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It is too late for RHEL6 so I'm closing this bug. Seems like the latest fedora package builds libatomic_ops correctly on all architectures, and the test passes -- no need to track this more downstream.