From: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
To: bug-gnulib@gnu.org
Cc: "Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen" <marc.nieper+gnu@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Module suggestion: Atomic operations
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2020 23:37:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7592307.AFZmgL042g@omega> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEYrNrSGU4WVHS7UUPNzhjtaR-6eHTQjWuKPVUvBHaJSLgmb7g@mail.gmail.com>
Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen wrote in
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2020-05/msg00289.html>:
> C11 has introduced atomic types and atomic operations. When they are not
> available, one can use locks/mutexes instead.
>
> It would be nice if there was a Gnulib module that abstracts over this,
> much like the threadlib module and friends abstract over a specific
> threading implementation.
Practically speaking, the GCC built-ins available since GCC 4.1, and then
later extended on GCC 4.7, fulfill most of the needs regarding atomics. Only
AIX and SUNpro C on Solaris need to be handled on a case-by-case basis.
Bruno
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-01 21:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-24 13:36 Module suggestion: Atomic operations Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen
2020-05-24 20:54 ` Bruno Haible
2020-05-25 7:03 ` Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen
2020-05-25 7:24 ` Bruno Haible
2020-05-25 20:11 ` Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen
2020-05-27 8:30 ` Bruno Haible
2020-07-01 21:37 ` Bruno Haible [this message]
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