On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Ashod Nakashian <ashnak...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Norbert Thiebaud <nthieb...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 12:14 PM, Ashod Nakashian <ashnak...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > OSL provides atomic helpers (osl_atomic_xxx) in the form of a GNU >> > builtin >> > (where available) or a platform-specific implementation. >> > >> > Any reason for not using modern std::atomic (besides possible lack of >> > volunteers) ? >> > >> > >> > As a transitional phase, we can maintain the same interface but with >> > std:atomic as the implementation. >> > >> > Thoughts? >> >> osl atomic are c interface, used in c-source... >> > Thanks. Is there equivalent used in C++ ? (osl atomics only work for > sal_Int32 values, which is another potential issue for 64-bit portability.)
the c++ code use these too. relying on atomic on 64 bits is going to be a problem as long as we support 32 bits OS. and mostly these atomic are used to ref-count... and there is really no reasonable need to have 64 bits ref-count is there ? Norbert _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
