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Time to move to C11 atomics? (2016)

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I think the ISO C and C++ definition of memory_order_consume will need to be fixed first. Perhaps recent progress has been made, but see for example "C++ P0371R1: Temporarily discourage memory_order_consume" and references therein:

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2016/p037...

Maybe the best thing to do is to write a really, really, really good test suite for the C11 compiler first.

I think u can propose it for C22

From reading the article it seems they present many negatives and no benefits.

src http://linuxfr.org/news/de-la-necessite-d-adopter-les-operat...

From June 15, 2016. They reference GCC 7.1 as being a year away...

Is this a thing now?

Downvotes? I merely meant to ask if linux implemented C11 atomics or not...

https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-7/:

  GCC 7.1
      May 2, 2017 (changes, documentation)

Pretty close.

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