dnl Copyright (c) 2005, Eric Crahen
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dnl
dnl Enables AM_ENABLE_ATOMIC_GCC to test for 
dnl GCC's atomic instruction support.
dnl
dnl --enable-atomic-gcc=yes|no [default=no]
dnl
dnl If support is available, then HAVE_ATOMIC_GCC 
dnl will be set
dnl
ifdef(AM_ENABLE_ATOMIC_GCC,,[

ATOMIC_GCC_ERROR=<<"EOF"
This compiler does not support the __atomic_add() and
__exchange_and_add() functions.
EOF

atomic_gcc_explicit="no"

AC_DEFUN(AM_ENABLE_ATOMIC_GCC,
[AC_ARG_ENABLE(atomic-gcc,
	AC_HELP_STRING([--enable-atomic-gcc],
		       [use gcc atomic instructions [default=no]]),
 [atomic_gcc_explicit="yes"], 
 [enable_atomic_gcc="no"])

 if test $enable_atomic_gcc = "yes"; then

 AC_CHECK_HEADER([bits/atomicity.h],
 [ AC_MSG_CHECKING([for __atomic_add(), __exchange_and_add() support])

   AC_TRY_LINK([#include <bits/atomicity.h>],
   [
      _Atomic_word i(0); 
      __atomic_add(&i, 1); 
      __exchange_and_add(&i, 1); 

   ],
   [ AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)
     AC_DEFINE(HAVE_ATOMIC_GCC,, [Defined if <bits/atomicity.h> is usable]) 
   ],
   [ AC_MSG_RESULT(no)

     if test $atomic_gcc_explicit = "yes"; then 
       AC_MSG_ERROR(${ATOMIC_GCC_ERROR})   
     fi
   ])

 ])
 
fi

])
])

dnl Eric Crahen <crahen at code-foo dot com>