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Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 11:20:18 -0300
From: Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@openbossa.org>
To: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
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Subject: Re: [RFC 0/6] Use __sync_* instead of g_atomic_*
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Hi,

On 19:54 Tue 02 Apr, Lucas De Marchi wrote:
> These patches fix build with gcc >= 4.8. I'd prefer to use plain ++/-- for
> these refcounts since we are not running multiple threads, but I'm preserving
> the previous behavior.
> 
> Note in some of the commits that the use of atomic operations was wrong, and it
> was not noticed only because there aren't multiple threads.
> 
> It's an RFC because it's only compile-tested (and 'make check' was executed as
> well). Please take a look in the patches and tell me if we want
> to continue with atomic operations. Then I can run some tests tomorrow.

Just to (publicly) clarify a doubt that I had, in case it matters to anyone
else, clang also has these built-ins.


Cheers,
-- 
Vinicius