On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 2:59 PM <johnmr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I still can't find anything "authoritative and unambiguous" on this. > Therefore apps are going to be released with bugs in them. Can someone > please say specifically when it is _not_ safe to use 64-bit atomic operations? > > When it is unsafe on a 64-bit OS? > When it is unsafe on a 32-bit OS?
Speaking pedantically, it's not the OS that matters, it's the processor (in Go terms, the GOARCH value). The exact rules can be seen at the bottom of https://golang.org/pkg/sync/atomic/ , in the "Bugs" section. Ian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
