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

From: Joseph S. Myers
Date: Mon Feb 17 2014 - 13:59:55 EST


On Sat, 15 Feb 2014, Torvald Riegel wrote:

> glibc is a counterexample that comes to mind, although it's a smaller
> code base. (It's currently not using C11 atomics, but transitioning
> there makes sense, and some thing I want to get to eventually.)

glibc is using C11 atomics (GCC builtins rather than _Atomic /
<stdatomic.h>, but using __atomic_* with explicitly specified memory model
rather than the older __sync_*) on AArch64, plus in certain cases on ARM
and MIPS.

--
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/