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4         <herd>haskell</herd>
5         <longdescription>
6                 Atomic operations including CAS (compare-and-swap), fetch &amp; add and variants
7                 suitable for low-level shared-memory synchronization.
8                 
9                 The implementation is using GCC&#39;s builtin atomic operations (available in GCC &gt;=
10                 4) in C wrappers called through the FFI. See these links for background:
11                 
12                 * GCC manual: &lt;https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Atomic-Builtins.html&gt;
13                 
14                 * GCC wiki: &lt;https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Atomic&gt;
15                 
16                 /Portability/: This package is primarily developed on a Linux system, but
17                 should work wherever GCC &gt;= 4 is available. It has been confirmed as working
18                 on OSX. On Windows, it should work with Cygwin but currently fails for
19                 vanilla Haskell-Platform 2010.1.0.0 as it still packages GCC 3.x. An
20                 installer for updated versions of GCC is available at
21                 &lt;http://www.mingw.org/&gt; and should make this package work in connection with
22                 Haskell-Platform. Feedback on compatibility would be appreciated.
23                 
24                 /Testing:/ The following commands can be used to compile and run the test suite:
25                 
26                 &gt; cabal unpack bits-atomic &amp;&amp; cd bits-atomic-* # if not yet locally available
27                 &gt; cabal configure -ftest
28                 &gt; cabal build
29                 &gt; cabal test
30                 
31                 /Recent changes/:
32                 
33                 * 0.1.3: Documentation updates, especially on portability. No functional
34                 changes.
35                 
36                 * 0.1.2: Avoid using System.FilePath in Setup.hs to fix build failure on hackage
37         </longdescription>
38 </pkgmetadata>