I ran into problems compiling this intel restricted transactional memory test case with gcc 4.9.1. Intel ICC compiles the test case fine with icc -O3 test-intelrtm.c -lpthread Trent Thanks, #include <stdio.h> #include <pthread.h> #include <immintrin.h> /* _XBEGIN_START */ #define ARRAY_SIZE 1024 #define TESTTHREAD_COUNT 32 /* lock for atomic access to the testarray */ static pthread_mutex_t arraylock; static pthread_t* threadarray; static int testarray[ARRAY_SIZE]; static void increment_func(void* arg) { int i; long int threadnum = (long int)arg; unsigned int status; if ((status = _xbegin ()) == _XBEGIN_STARTED){ /* test _xtest() and _xabort(). fallback path for odd-num thread */ if (_xtest() && (threadnum % 2)) _xabort(_XABORT_EXPLICIT); for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE; ++i) testarray[i] ++; _xend(); } else { /* fallback path. hold array lock */ pthread_mutex_lock(&arraylock); for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE; ++i) testarray[i] ++; /* release array lock */ pthread_mutex_unlock(&arraylock); } } bash-4.1$ gcc test-intelrtm.c -lpthread test-intelrtm.c: In function ‘run_test’: test-intelrtm.c:44:82: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size [-Wint-to-pointer-cast] pthread_create(&threadarray[i], NULL, (void *(*)(void*))increment_func, (void*)i); ^ In file included from /site/sc/rdrive/ref/gcc/4.9.1/rhel60/efi2/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.9.1/include/immintrin.h:65:0, from test-intelrtm.c:12: test-intelrtm.c: In function ‘increment_func’: /site/sc/rdrive/ref/gcc/4.9.1/rhel60/efi2/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.9.1/include/rtmintrin.h:50:1: error: inlining failed in call to always_inline ‘_xbegin’: target specific option mismatch _xbegin (void) ^ test-intelrtm.c:25:9: error: called from here if ((status = _xbegin ()) == _XBEGIN_STARTED){ ^ In file included from /site/sc/rdrive/ref/gcc/4.9.1/rhel60/efi2/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.9.1/include/immintrin.h:67:0, from test-intelrtm.c:12: /site/sc/rdrive/ref/gcc/4.9.1/rhel60/efi2/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.9.1/include/xtestintrin.h:41:1: error: inlining failed in call to always_inline ‘_xtest’: target specific option mismatch _xtest (void) ^ test-intelrtm.c:27:14: error: called from here if (_xtest() && (threadnum % 2)) _xabort(_XABORT_EXPLICIT); ^ In file included from /site/sc/rdrive/ref/gcc/4.9.1/rhel60/efi2/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.9.1/include/immintrin.h:65:0, from test-intelrtm.c:12: /site/sc/rdrive/ref/gcc/4.9.1/rhel60/efi2/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.9.1/include/rtmintrin.h:61:1: error: inlining failed in call to always_inline ‘_xend’: target specific option mismatch _xend (void) ^ test-intelrtm.c:29:10: error: called from here _xend(); ^ bash-4.1$ gcc --version gcc (GCC) 4.9.1 Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.