X-Git-Url: https://git.lttng.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.md;h=38a76c29740a8286eabc92edb29b5eadc520b0a4;hb=efa4515da1e6ecd02edd94d422d486c6ef0bcd4d;hp=1e755894d9cb811e26a155774cc68607c850fce5;hpb=ff59d427166510229fd3925748ed91c90741ae9c;p=urcu.git diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 1e75589..38a76c2 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ Architectures supported Currently, the following architectures are supported: - x86 (i386, i486, i586, i686) - - amd64 / x86_64 + - amd64 / x86\_64 - PowerPC 32/64 - S390, S390x - ARM 32/64 @@ -83,12 +83,12 @@ supported, with the following exceptions: therefore not compatible with `liburcu` on x86 32-bit (i386, i486, i586, i686). The problem has been reported to the GCC community: - http://www.mail-archive.com/gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org/msg281255.html + - GCC 3.3 cannot match the "xchg" instruction on 32-bit x86 build. - See http://kerneltrap.org/node/7507 + See - Alpha, ia64 and ARM architectures depend on GCC 4.x with atomic builtins support. For ARM this was introduced with GCC 4.4: - http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.4/changes.html. + . - Linux aarch64 depends on GCC 5.1 or better because prior versions perform unsafe access to deallocated stack. @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ compile the git repository tree : - GNU autotools (automake >=1.12, autoconf >=2.69) (make sure your system wide `automake` points to a recent version!) - GNU Libtool >=2.2 - (for more information, go to http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/) + (for more information, go to ) If you get the tree from the repository, you will need to use the `bootstrap` script in the root of the tree. It calls all the GNU tools needed to prepare @@ -163,8 +163,8 @@ There are multiple flavors of liburcu available: - `signal`, - `bp`. -The API members start with the prefix "urcu__", where - is the chosen flavor name. +The API members start with the prefix `urcu__`, where +`` is the chosen flavor name. ### Usage of `liburcu-memb` @@ -385,8 +385,8 @@ For always-on debugging self-checks: ./configure --enable-rcu-debug For fine grained enabling of debugging self-checks, build -userspace-rcu with DEBUG_RCU defined and compile dependent -applications with DEBUG_RCU defined when necessary. +userspace-rcu with `DEBUG_RCU` defined and compile dependent +applications with `DEBUG_RCU` defined when necessary. Warning: Enabling this feature result in a performance penalty. @@ -445,7 +445,7 @@ applications built using Userspace RCU 0.10 headers linked against Userspace RCU 0.11 or 0.12 shared objects. The problem occurs as follows: - - An application executable is built with _LGPL_SOURCE defined, includes + - An application executable is built with `_LGPL_SOURCE` defined, includes any of the Userspace RCU 0.10 urcu flavor headers, and is built without the -fpic compiler option.