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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Review Request: Add spinlocks lock type, based on GCC intrisincs
From:       Michael Pyne <mpyne () kde ! org>
Date:       2012-08-28 0:18:34
Message-ID: 2827311.ZLvtNbAWIT () midna
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On Tuesday, August 28, 2012 00:41:16 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On segunda-feira, 27 de agosto de 2012 18.20.15, Michael Pyne wrote:
> > > Please use the Qt atomic types. Until GCC 4.7, they generate better
> > > code.
> > 
> > I agree, the reason it wasn't that way initially is mentioned in the
> > discussion on the bug (but basically because you can't simply put
> > QBasicAtomicInt in the union used to store the different lock types that
> > are  possible).
> 
> Why not?
> 
> QBasicAtomicInt are permitted in unions. Besides, why do you want it in a
> union in the first place? You should not access the data that it holds
> *except* via the QBasicAtomicInt functions.

That would be the idea, yes (to use the public QBAI functions).

The problem with having it in a union was that it's a non-POD type according 
to C++ 03 rules (or at least, that seemed to be the issue when I had tried 
that initially).

Regards,
 - Michael Pyne
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