Part of the motivation here is to fix heisenbugs. If I knew where
they
By the same token we should probably disable optimisations
altogether since that too can create heisenbugs.
Almost everything is a tradeoff; and so is this. I don't
believe most people would find disabling all compiler
optimisations an acceptable price to pay for some peace
of mind.
So why is this a good tradeoff?
It certainly is better than disabling all compiler optimisations!
I also think that just adding things to APIs in the hope it might fix
up some bugs isn't really a good road to go down. Where do you stop?
I look at it the other way: keeping the "volatile" semantics in
atomic_XXX() (or adding them to it, whatever) helps _prevent_ bugs;
certainly most people expect that behaviour, and also that behaviour
is *needed* in some places and no other interface provides that
functionality.
[some confusion about barriers wrt atomics snipped]
Segher
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