Change atomic_pointer.h to prefer a memory barrier based
implementation over a <cstdatomic> based implementation for
the following reasons:
(1) On a x86-32-bit gcc-4.4 build, <ctdatomic> was corrupting
the AtomicPointer.
(2) On a x86-64-bit gcc build, a <ctstdatomic> based acquire-load
takes ~15ns as opposed to the ~1ns for a memory-barrier
based implementation.
Fixes issue 9 (corruption_test fails)
http://code.google.com/p/leveldb/issues/detail?id=9
Fixes issue 16 (CorruptionTest.MissingDescriptor fails)
http://code.google.com/p/leveldb/issues/detail?id=16
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This revision adds two major changes:
1. build_detect_platform which generates build_config.mk
with platform-dependent flags for the build process
2. /port/atomic_pointer.h with anAtomicPointerimplementation
for platforms without <cstdatomic>
Some of this code is loosely based on patches submitted to the
LevelDB mailing list at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/leveldb
Tip of the hat to Dave Smith and Edouard A, who both sent patches.
The presence of Snappy (http://code.google.com/p/snappy/) and
cstdatomic are now both detected in the build_detect_platform
script (1.) which gets executing during make.
For (2.), instead of broadly importing atomicops_* from Chromium or
the Google performance tools, we chose to just implement AtomicPointer
and the limited atomic load and store operations it needs.
This resulted in much less code and fewer files - everything is
contained in atomic_pointer.h.
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