Re: C aggregate passing (Rust kernel policy)

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 27 Feb 2025 at 10:33, Ralf Jung <post@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> The way you do global flags in Rust is like this:

Note that I was really talking mainly about the unsafe cases, an din
particular when interfacing with C code.

Also, honestly:

> FLAG.store(true, Ordering::SeqCst); // or release/acquire/relaxed

I suspect in reality it would be hidden as accessor functions, or
people just continue to write things in C.

Yes, I know all about the C++ memory ordering. It's not only a
standards mess, it's all very illegible code too.

             Linus