On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 13:32, Andika Triwidada <and...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Luc Pionchon <pionchon....@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> could someone explain with simple terms what the following means? >> >> "Atomic operations have been rewritten to use gcc builtins; calls with " >> "explicit casts may be problematic." >> >> "Atomic operations on pointers have been added, including bit-locks on " >> "pointer-size locations." >> >> > http://wiki.osdev.org/Atomic_operation > > IMHO developers are already familiar with these terms: > atomic operation, gcc builtin, explicit cast, bit-lock > > Maybe you don't need to translate those terms? > Thank you for the reference! It still seems very low level, and far from common application development, am I wrong? Let me ask in other words. In the context of GNOME platform release notes, what is the main information? What does it bring to developers? Is it a new API? A new facility? Or a performance improvement? Or just a warning that internal changes may now break things? Is it targeted at glib developers or application developers?
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