Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen wrote in <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2020-05/msg00289.html>: > C11 has introduced atomic types and atomic operations. When they are not > available, one can use locks/mutexes instead. > > It would be nice if there was a Gnulib module that abstracts over this, > much like the threadlib module and friends abstract over a specific > threading implementation.
Practically speaking, the GCC built-ins available since GCC 4.1, and then later extended on GCC 4.7, fulfill most of the needs regarding atomics. Only AIX and SUNpro C on Solaris need to be handled on a case-by-case basis. Bruno
