Re: Any plans for glib to contain atomic compare/exchange?

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 10:36, Mike Hearn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In Win32 there are a group of functions that allow you to perform swaps,
> compares, compares and swaps and inc/dec in an atomic fashion. They are
> called for instance InterlockedExchange, InterlockedCompareExchance,
> InterlockedIncrement etc. 

[...]

> It's this kind of simple throwaway function that GLib is great for. Are
> there any plans to implement this sort of thing? Should I file it in
> bugzilla, or is it too low-level? Should I post this to gtk-devel rather
> than here? Possible API:
>
> (inline) void g_interlocked_increment(guint *i);
> (inline) void g_interlocked_exchange(guint *src, guint *dest);
>
> Well, s/interlocked/atomic/ at your leisure of course. Thoughts?

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63621

Regards,
                                        Owen