[cpp-threads] atomic operations package

[Peter Dimov]

Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> On 8/23/05, Peter Dimov <pdimov at mmltd.net> wrote:
> [...]
>> The C people would never accept the <> syntax. They hate templates
>> with a passion. :-)
>
> Why not simply give a bunch of macros to templates haters?
>
> __STDC_ATOMIC_SCALAR(int, v);

This doesn't work, I may need to be able to express the type atomic<int> 
outside of a declaration.

    __STD_ATOMIC(int) v;

I'm still with

    int v;

>> atomic_load( &v, msync_acq )
>
> __STDC_ATOMIC_LOAD(v, __STDC_MSYNC_ACQ);

Merely an uglier version of the line above. Why is this an improvement?