Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/5] arch: atomic rework

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 5:16 PM, Torvald Riegel <triegel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> (a) seems to say that you don't like requiring programmers to mark
> atomic accesses specially.  Is that the case?

In Paul's example, they were marked specially.

And you seemed to argue that Paul's example could possibly return
anything but 0/0.

If you really think that, I hope to God that you have nothing to do
with the C standard or any actual compiler I ever use.

Because such a standard or compiler would be shit. It's sadly not too uncommon.

             Linus
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