On Mar 3, 2007, at 3:51 AM, Pavel Cahyna wrote:

> Doesn't gcc provide what we need?
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.1.2/gcc/Atomic-Builtins.html

The API is not rich enough, IMO.  And it needs to work on platforms  
where GCC does not implement the builtins.

-- thorpej