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+/* NVPTX atomic operations
+   Copyright (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+   Contributed by Mentor Graphics.
+
+   This file is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+   under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
+   Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any
+   later version.
+
+   This file is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+   WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+   General Public License for more details.
+
+   Under Section 7 of GPL version 3, you are granted additional
+   permissions described in the GCC Runtime Library Exception, version
+   3.1, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
+
+   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License and
+   a copy of the GCC Runtime Library Exception along with this program;
+   see the files COPYING3 and COPYING.RUNTIME respectively.  If not, see
+   <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
+
+#include <stdbool.h>
+
+/* Implement __sync_val_compare_and_swap and __sync_bool_compare_and_swap
+   for 1 and 2-byte values (which are not natively supported) in terms of
+   __sync_val_compare_and_swap for 4-byte values (which is supported).
+   This assumes that the contents of the word surrounding the subword
+   value that we are interested in are accessible as well (which should
+   normally be the case).  Note that if the contents of the word surrounding
+   the subword changes between the __sync_val_compare_and_swap_4 and the
+   preceeding load of oldword, while the subword does not, the implementation
+   loops, which may manifest worst-case as a hang.  */
+
+#define __SYNC_SUBWORD_COMPARE_AND_SWAP(TYPE, SIZE)                         \
+                                                                            \
+TYPE                                                                        \
+__sync_val_compare_and_swap_##SIZE (TYPE *ptr, TYPE oldval, TYPE newval)     \
+{                                                                           \
+  unsigned int *wordptr = (unsigned int *)((__UINTPTR_TYPE__ ) ptr & ~3UL);  \
+  int shift = ((__UINTPTR_TYPE__ ) ptr & 3UL) * 8;                          \
+  unsigned int valmask = (1 << (SIZE * 8)) - 1;                                     \
+  unsigned int wordmask = ~(valmask << shift);                              \
+  unsigned int oldword = *wordptr;                                          \
+  for (;;)                                                                  \
+    {                                                                       \
+      TYPE prevval = (oldword >> shift) & valmask;                          \
+      /* Exit if the subword value previously read from memory is not */     \
+      /* equal to the expected value OLDVAL.  */                            \
+      if (__builtin_expect (prevval != oldval, 0))                          \
+       return prevval;                                                      \
+      unsigned int newword = oldword & wordmask;                            \
+      newword |= ((unsigned int) newval) << shift;                          \
+      unsigned int prevword                                                 \
+         = __sync_val_compare_and_swap_4 (wordptr, oldword, newword);       \
+      /* Exit only if the compare-and-swap succeeds on the whole word */     \
+      /* (i.e. the contents of *WORDPTR have not changed since the last */   \
+      /* memory read).  */                                                  \
+      if (__builtin_expect (prevword == oldword, 1))                        \
+       return oldval;                                                       \
+      oldword = prevword;                                                   \
+    }                                                                       \
+}                                                                           \
+                                                                            \
+bool                                                                        \
+__sync_bool_compare_and_swap_##SIZE (TYPE *ptr, TYPE oldval, TYPE newval)    \
+{                                                                           \
+  return __sync_val_compare_and_swap_##SIZE (ptr, oldval, newval) == oldval; \
+}
+
+__SYNC_SUBWORD_COMPARE_AND_SWAP (unsigned char, 1)
+__SYNC_SUBWORD_COMPARE_AND_SWAP (unsigned short, 2)