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+Synopsis
+========
+
+This package provides semi-portable access to hardware provided
+atomic memory operations.  These might allow you to write code:
+
+- That does more interesting things in signal handlers.
+- Makes more effective use of multiprocessors by allowing you to write
+  clever lock-free code.  Note that such code is very difficult to get
+  right, and will unavoidably be less portable than lock-based code.  It
+  is also not always faster than lock-based code.  But it may occasionally
+  be a large performance win.
+- To experiment with new and much better thread programming paradigms, etc.
+
+For details and licensing restrictions see the files in the doc
+subdirectory.
+
+This is version 7.2d of libatomic_ops.
+
+You might find a more recent version of this at
+
+http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc
+
+or
+
+http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/linux/atomic_ops/
+
+
+Installation and Usage
+======================
+
+The configuration and build scripts for this package were generated by
+Automake/Autoconf.  "./configure --prefix=<install dir>; make; make install"
+in this directory should work.  For a more customized build, see "INSTALL"
+and the output of "./configure --help".
+
+Note that much of the content of this library is in the header files.
+However, two small libraries are built and installed:
+
+- libatomic_ops.a is a support library, which is not needed on some platforms.
+  This is intended to be usable, under some mild restrictions, in free or
+  proprietary code, as are all the header files.  See doc/LICENSING.txt.
+- libatomic_ops_gpl.a contains some higher level facilities.  This code is
+  currently covered by the GPL.  The contents currently correspond to
+  the headers atomic_ops_stack.h and atomic_ops_malloc.h.
+
+
+Platform Specific Notes
+=======================
+
+Win32/64: src/Makefile.msft contains a very simple Makefile for building
+and running tests and building the gpl library.  The core atomic_ops
+implementation is entirely in header files.
+
+HP-UX/PA-RISC: aCC -Ae won't work as a C compiler, since it doesn't support
+inline assembly code.  Use cc.