On Tue, 26 Jan 2021, Kyryl Melekhin wrote:
Also while atomics are probably better solution so using something like mutex or spinlock, they are platform dependant
They're no more platform-dependent than addition. Obviously they do need support from the CPU, but so does everything else. They don't depend on any OS-specific facilities or anything like that.
they just kind of produce code smell
How's that?
so personally I always tried to avoid using them, because portability issues might arrise at some point, especially with new hardware and embeded world.
I think you can generally depend on the existence of atomic operations. Embedded platforms are likely to be single-core, so atomicity is irrelevant (except for reentrance, but that's a whole other kettle of fish). Elsewhere, atomic operations are necessary to implement many algorithms efficiently, and they're part of the specification for many programming languages. So I can't imagine anyone would design a CPU that lacked them.
For my part, I have two projects that I would love to use tcc on but can't currently because of the lack of atomics.
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