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Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2025 04:49:12 -0400
To: Jeremy Drake <cygwin@jdrake.com>
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Subject: Re: instruction cache flushing in Cygwin
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On Thu, Jun 05, 2025 at 11:33:18PM -0700, Jeremy Drake via Cygwin wrote:
> I noticed while looking at JIT test failures in LLVM that they don't have
> an implementation for Cygwin for flushing the instruction cache.  I don't
> see any Cygwin function calling FlushInstructionCache, is there some
> POSIXy function for this?  I don't really want to have to include Windows
> headers just to get FlushInstructionCache and GetCurrentProcess, risking
> pulling in a lot of extra definitions.

Do you need something specific to Cygwin, or something that is specific
to CPU-architecture?  GCC and Clang both have __builtin___clear_cache()
intrinsic (yes, with all those underscores)

Cheers, Glenn

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