Extra Zero/Shark patches for review

[Gary Benson]

Greg Lewis wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 05:35:06AM -0800, Greg Lewis wrote:
> > D'oh.  I think real problem is that my amd64 box is still running
> > FreeBSD 6.x, which means its using gcc 3.4.6.  I bet that
> > __sync_synchronize() wasn't implemented until gcc 4.x and if I
> > just upgrade it will work.
> > 
> > Of course that is a pain for anyone wanting to use a non-gcc
> > compiler.

Yeah, Zero has always been gcc-specific.  Are there other compilers
people use on FreeBSD?

> That was indeed the case.  I upgraded to 8.0-RC3 and I can build
> Zero on amd64 just with a few changes to the atomic implementation.

Awesome :)

Cheers,
Gary

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