Am Samstag, den 26.07.2014, 09:16 +0200 schrieb Jens Gustedt:
> And you are right mentioning that, in many situations spin locks do
> effectively suffice. C11 has atomic_flag for that. Often locks are
> just taken for critical sections of code that do a small task, just
> some instructions.

Curiously, I just tracked down a use of pthread_mutex_lock and
pthread_mutex_unlock that I couldn't explain. It came from libatomic
as of gcc-4.9.0.

Looking into that, I see that they got the locking part for the non
lock-free atomics in their POSIX version plain wrong. Not only that
this sucks in the symbols which they shouldn't, but pthread_mutex_t is
just not the right tool for the task. It should be atomic_flag.

Jens

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