[SERVER-8488] Reintroduce Limited Windows XP Support Created: 08/Feb/13 Updated: 27/Oct/15 Resolved: 26/Feb/13 |
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| Status: | Closed |
| Project: | Core Server |
| Component/s: | None |
| Affects Version/s: | 2.4.0-rc0 |
| Fix Version/s: | 2.4.0-rc2 |
| Type: | Improvement | Priority: | Major - P3 |
| Reporter: | Andy Schwerin | Assignee: | Andrew Morrow (Inactive) |
| Resolution: | Done | Votes: | 1 |
| Labels: | None | ||
| Remaining Estimate: | Not Specified | ||
| Time Spent: | Not Specified | ||
| Original Estimate: | Not Specified | ||
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| Description |
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The server codebase work required to reintroduce XP support, assuming that it is only for dev work and has no real performance requirements, includes at least the following: Provide a template specialization of AtomicWord<LONGLONG> and AtomicWord<ULONGLONG> for Windows XP only. That specialization should use a single global mutex to synchronize all access to AtomicWord<LONGLONG> and AtomicWord<ULONGLONG> instances, rather than using the unavailable atomic intrinsics. Other non-XP features may also need to be supported. |
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| Comment by auto [ 01/Mar/13 ] |
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Author: {u'date': u'2013-03-01T10:12:15Z', u'name': u'Tad Marshall', u'email': u'tad@10gen.com'}Message: |
| Comment by auto [ 26/Feb/13 ] |
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Author: {u'date': u'2013-02-21T00:50:22Z', u'name': u'Andrew Morrow', u'email': u'acm@10gen.com'}Message: The strategy here is to use the one available 64-bit intrinsic for Windows XP, which is |