Apologies to Jim. Sent this to him, meant for the dev list of course.
>> On 17 Sep 2018, at 14:18, Jim Jagielski <j...@jagunet.com> wrote:
>>
>> FYI: Both clang and GCC support both __sync and __atomic which support 64bit
>> ints. We could add that functionality to APR...
>
> We could indeed.
>
> But does that not potentially leave a nasty gotcha? Where a developer uses
> it and expects
> atomic operations, and their application is subsequently built on a platform
> that
> doesn't support those qualifiers.
>
> With the obvious fallback it breaks silently. With a more
> sophisticated/heavyweight
> fallback, we should consider whether it's maintainable or likely to fall into
> disrepair.
>
> I wouldn't want to stop you, but it needs some thought.
>
> --
> Nick Kew
