Presently, no. There are operations, such as with semaphores, where this sort
of functionality might be used but has been left unspecified as many CPUs don't
support exchanges; for most older ones only loads and stores are atomic, and
the volatile modifier and sigatomic_t types are geared to be
As asked, is there an CMPXGCHG-like function in the standard?
I tried looking for keywords such as cmp, comp, ch, but
nothing turned up in the system interfaces list.
The C language introduced atomic functions in C11 though.
It is certainly a good thing that this has been reopened, as what
was proposed to be inserted is, frankly, nonsense.
It is not that I have anything against a time reserved word, though
being a reserved word rather than a builtin, or special builtin does
make it impossible to redirect (as has been
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Enclosed are the minutes from yesterdays call. Please note that the monday call
next week is cancelled.
regards
Andrew
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Minutes of the 13th February 2020 Teleconference Austin-1005 Page 1 of 1
Submitted by Andrew Josey, The Open Group. 14th February 2020
Attendees:
Mark Ziegas