Date: Sun, 10 Sep 100 20:15:11 +1100 (EST)
From: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au>
To: smp@freebsd.org
Subject: atomic_{add,subtract} functions.
Message-ID: <200009100915.UAA03343@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au>
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Someone might want to expand that interface from being
atomic_{add,subtract}_{char,short,int,long}()
(what happened to quad?) to include these too:
atomic_{add,subtract}_{8,16,32,64}()
I (and others, I hope) aren't so much fussed with what you can do in half
a dozen asm. instructions on architecture X as having an interface which
can be used reliably. Afterall, what about {u_,}int{8,16,32,64}_t ?
Personally, I don't care if the above macros turn out to be rather heavy
on some architectures (386, 486), heck, I'd even support them being
something like:
#define atomic_add_foo(x, y) { mtx_enter(&mtx_foo, MTX_DEF); x += y;
mtx_exit(&mtx_foo); }
if that is what was required.
Darren
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