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Re: [PATCH 03/11] include: add lock-less reference counting primitives


From: Samuel Thibault
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/11] include: add lock-less reference counting primitives
Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 00:23:48 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21+34 (58baf7c9f32f) (2010-12-30)

Justus Winter, le Mon 12 May 2014 12:05:41 +0200, a écrit :
> +  const union _references op = { .refs = { .hard = 1 } };
> +  refcounts_t r = __atomic_add_fetch (ref, op.rc, __ATOMIC_RELAXED);

Mmm, I don't think it is allowed by C to write into a field and read
from another field.  The legacy Hurd code used to tend to do it in some
places, but it breaks with smart compilers.

Samuel



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