Answer by Ciro Santilli OurBigBook.com for UNIX Portable Atomic Operations
C11 atomics minimal runnable exampleWith the addition of threads in glibc 2.28, we can do both atomics and threading in pure C11.Example from:...
View ArticleAnswer by RubenLaguna for UNIX Portable Atomic Operations
As of C11 there is an optional Atomic library which provides atomic operations. This is portable to whatever platform that has a C11 compiler (like gcc-4.9) with this optional feature. The presence of...
View ArticleAnswer by user3033869 for UNIX Portable Atomic Operations
For anyone who stumbles upon this in the future, C11 atomics are the best way to do this now - I believe they will be included in GCC 4.9.
View ArticleAnswer by someGuy for UNIX Portable Atomic Operations
Since you asked for OS X:(and since cross platformity was raised in this thread.)OS X has functions OSAtomicAdd32() and friends. They are declared in "/usr/include/libkern/OSAtomic.h".See The Threading...
View ArticleAnswer by paxdiablo for UNIX Portable Atomic Operations
No, POSIX does not specify any portable lock-free/atomic operations. That's why they have pthreads.You're either going to have to use non-standard ways or stick with ptrheads for portability.
View ArticleAnswer by unwind for UNIX Portable Atomic Operations
I don't think there is.One way of solving it, licenses permitting of course, would be to copy the relevant per-architecture implementations from e.g. the Linux kernel space. I haven't followed the...
View ArticleAnswer by Goz for UNIX Portable Atomic Operations
AFAIK there are no cross-platform ways to do atomic operations. There may be a library out there but I don't know of. Its not particularly hard to roll your own, though.
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Is there a (POSIX-)portable way in C for atomic variable operations similar to a portable threading with pthread?Atomic operations are operations like "increment and get" that are executed atomically...
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