# The devel/boehm-gc,-atomic port

## libatomic_ops-1.2p6 – access to hardware provided atomic memory operations

## Description

    This package provides semi-portable access to hardware provided
    atomic memory operations.  These might allow you to write code:

    - That does more interesting things in signal handlers.
    - Makes more effective use of multiprocessors by allowing you to write
      clever lock-free code.  Note that such code is very difficult to get
      right, and will unavoidably be less portable than lock-based code.  It
      ia also not always faster than lock-based code.  But it may occasionally
      be a large performance win.

WWW: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/

Multi-packages
  libatomic_ops-1.2p6 boehm-gc-7.0p6
Not for arches
  m68k m88k mips64 mips64el vax
Categories:
  devel

## Library dependencies

## Build dependencies

- STEM->=1.21:textproc/groff
- devel/autoconf/2.61
- devel/metaauto

## Run dependencies