>OK, I haven't been programming much lately, but when did I miss atomic_t >becoming a part of any C standard?
its not. its a type derived from the kernel headers, which also defines some basic operations on them. for most common architectures, they resolve to integer read/write. >Also, several people have referred to the atomicity of int/pointer >read/write. This is news to me - can someone point me at the spec for this? its an architecture-specific issue. its not true on SPARCs and on some NUMA systems. it has nothing to do with a language per se. --p
