Re: better atomics - v0.2

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Ants Aasma <ants(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Subject: Re: better atomics - v0.2
Date: 2013-11-19 21:37:32
Message-ID: 20131119213732.GX28149@momjian.us
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On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 04:34:59PM +0100, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2013-11-19 10:30:24 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > I don't have an informed opinion about requiring inline support
> > > (although it would surely be nice).
> >
> > inline is C99, and we've generally resisted requiring C99 features.
> > Maybe it's time to move that goalpost, and maybe not.
>
> But it's a part of C99 that was very widely implemented before, so even
> if we don't want to rely on C99 in its entirety, relying on inline
> support is realistic.
>
> I think, independent from atomics, the readability & maintainability win
> by relying on inline functions instead of long macros, potentially with
> multiple eval hazards, or contortions like ILIST_INCLUDE_DEFINITIONS is
> significant.

Oh, man, my fastgetattr() macro is going to be simplified. All my good
work gets rewritten. ;-)

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