[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/8] use GCC's C11 atomic builtins for test

[Honnappa Nagarahalli]

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> >
> > As I mentioned earlier in this thread, GCC supports 2 types of
> > atomics. "Use GCC atomic builtins" does not help distinguish between
> > them. In "GCC's C11 atomic builtins" - "C11" indicates which atomics
> > we are using, "atomic builtins" indicates that we are NOT using APIs
> > from stdatomic.h
> 
> if you need a term to distinguish the two sets of atomics in gcc you can qualify
> it with "Memory Model Aware" which is straight from the gcc manual.
"Memory model aware" sounds too generic. The same page [1] also makes it clear that the built-in functions match the requirements for the C11 memory model.

There are also several patches merged in the past which do not use the term "memory model aware". I would prefer to be consistent.

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/_005f_005fatomic-Builtins.html