Re: Trying out

[shihao zhong]

Hi Greg,

I'm not an expert on atomics, but I tried v8-0001 on macOS arm64 with
-Duse_stdatomic=yes. The full meson suite passes. Two things came up.

1. The header has a C++23 branch, and that branch fails to build
when an extension includes it inside extern "C", which is the usual
way:

    extern "C" {
    #include "postgres.h"
    #include "storage/lwlock.h"
    }

clang 17 failed with "templates must have C++ linkage".

2. pg_atomic_test_set_flag_impl uses atomic_fetch_and_explicit(). On
x86 clang turns that into a lock cmpxchg loop, while master uses a
single xchg.

Maybe use atomic_exchange_explicit(ptr, 0, memory_order_acquire) ?

Thanks,
Shihao