Re: Proposal for a userspace "architecture portability" library

[Roland McGrath]

> I don't think glibc exports any atomic operations.

That is true.  But it does have implementations in bits/atomic.h for many
processors, and that is under the LGPL.

> As for the semaphores and spinlocks, clearly you can use the pthread_*
> functions, but hopefully the kernel versions are a bit lighter-weight.

The pthread_spin_* functions are not inlines, but are otherwise minimal.
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