5 Mar
2016
5 Mar
'16
1:28 p.m.
On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 1:12 PM, Kjetil Matheussen <k.s.matheussen(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Control of memory ordering and atomics are officially
part of the C
and C++ languages since 2011. GCC already
supported this when the ISO
Ouch. Sorry. Wrong. C11 has stdatomic.h, but it's not included
in gcc 4.x, which is still used a lot.
standards was finalized. Microsoft and Clang
started supporting it in
2012. So, it's been pretty much portable since 2012. This is 2016.
IMHO, it's time to make use of it. :)
Well, atomics are not an official part of the C standard, only the C++
standard.