[OpenSIPS-Devel] [OpenSIPS/opensips] e229e1: Revert "packaging: We no longer have atomic.h"

[Maxim Sobolev]

Good to hear, thanks Liviu for taking care of it! I was not criticizing you
acting in a particular situation, but criticizing the approach taken to
deal with the issue at hand. :)

With regards to the old compilers I suggest OpenSIPS take some stance on
that issue perhaps as soon as 3.2 is out. In my opinion in the age when my
phone has 8 cores we could not be supporting platforms without atomics for
another 3 years. There are easy ways to install a newer compiler on
CentOSes, customers who rely on this platform could probably be advised to
explore that option instead of dragging everyone else down. Makefile for
once needs a grand cleanup to remove all those hacks for 2.x, 3.x, 4.x and
so on compilers. It is funny (or not) that each time I am compiling it with
Clang 10 it complains that my compiler it too old and may not be supported
anymore. :-))))

-Maxim

On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 8:04 AM Liviu Chircu <liviu at opensips.org> wrote:

> On 10.12.2020 13:13, Liviu Chircu wrote:
> > Just for the record: that fix for obscure compiler broke ongoing
> > effort to make OpenSIPS portable to anything but x86. Now ARM and MIPS
> > builds are down: :(
>
> By the way... speaking of obscure compilers:  CentOS will soon be dead
> anyway [1]  So in May 2024, we will be able to finally remove "atomic.h"
> and drop the CentOS 7 build.
>
> [1]:
>
> https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/centos-shifts-from-red-hat-unbranded-to-red-hat-beta/
>
> --
> Liviu Chircu
> www.twitter.com/liviuchircu | www.opensips-solutions.com
>
>
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