C++11 atomic library notes

[Richard Henderson]

On 09/30/2011 01:36 PM, Andrew MacLeod wrote:
> http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Atomic/GCCMM/LIbrary


>   __atomic_store (size_t obj_size, T *mem, T val, enum memory_model model)

I don't like this.  I really cannot imagine any situation for which the
compiler can't resolve SIZE to a compile-time constant.  I think it's
pointless to have a dispatch routine that just calls all of

>   __atomic_store_1  (T *mem, T val, enum memory_model model)
>   __atomic_store_2  (T *mem, T val, enum memory_model model)
>   __atomic_store_4  (T *mem, T val, enum memory_model model)
>   __atomic_store_8  (T *mem, T val, enum memory_model model)
>   __atomic_store_16 (T *mem, T val, enum memory_model model)

and so forth.



r~