Re: 3.2 Release Notes Available for Translation

[Luc Pionchon <pionchon luc gmail com>]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 13:32, Andika Triwidada <andika gmail com> wrote:

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Luc Pionchon <pionchon luc gmail com> wrote:

Hello,

could someone explain with simple terms what the following means?

"Atomic operations have been rewritten to use gcc builtins; calls with "
"explicit casts may be problematic."

"Atomic operations on pointers have been added, including bit-locks on "
"pointer-size locations."

 

http://wiki.osdev.org/Atomic_operation 

IMHO developers are already familiar with these terms:

atomic operation, gcc builtin, explicit cast, bit-lock

Maybe you don't need to translate those terms?

Thank you for the reference!
It still seems very low level, and far from common application development, am I wrong?

Let me ask in other words. In the context of GNOME platform release notes, what is the main information? What does it bring to developers? Is it a new API? A new facility? Or a performance improvement? Or just a warning that internal changes may now break things? Is it targeted at glib developers or application developers?