[boost] [interprocess] patch for AIX

Subject: [boost] [interprocess] patch for AIX
From: Etienne PIERRE (e.ti.n.pierre_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-04-28 06:24:35

Hello,

Currently interprocess doesn't work on AIX for two reasons :
- detail/os_thread_functions.hpp uses ::pthread_equal but this fails because
pthread_equal is a macro under AIX and it fails because of the :: prefix
- in detail/atomic.hpp there is no implementation of PowerPC under AIX so I
added one that uses the combination of lwarx and stwcx for each function to
implement.

I saw that under AIX, the detail/atomic_count.hpp and
detail/sp_counted_base.hpp falls back to a pthread implementation, I could
submit a patch for a real atomic implementation under AIX but I wonder if
there are other places in boost where this should be done ?

Thanks,

Etienne PIERRE