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Douglas Creager updated AVRO-746:
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Attachment: fixed-make-dist.patch
Third time's a charm.
> Atomic reference counts
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> Key: AVRO-746
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-746
> Project: Avro
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: c
> Reporter: Douglas Creager
> Assignee: Douglas Creager
> Attachments: 0001-Atomic-reference-counts.patch, fixed-make-dist.patch
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> In one of my projects that uses Avro, I pass avro_datum_t instances between
> threads, using the reference count mechanism to make sure that they're not
> freed while any thread still has a reference to them. I was getting some
> spurious segfaults, which were caused by the fact that the reference counts
> aren't updated atomically. I've created a patch that implements atomic
> reference counts, using the [OpenPA
> library|http://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/openpa/] to provide the atomic
> operations themselves. (That library is MIT licensed, so it can be included
> in the source tree.)
> Note that only avro_XXX_incref and avro_XXX_decref are thread-safe as a
> result of this patch. For all of the other library functions, the caller is
> still responsible for ensuring thread safety.
> The patch makes sure that the OpenPA code works in both the old autotools
> build and the newer CMake build.
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