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authorRainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com>2009-01-30 15:41:29 +0100
committerRainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com>2009-01-30 15:41:29 +0100
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@@ -47,6 +47,13 @@
# define ATOMIC_FETCH_32BIT(data) ((unsigned) __sync_fetch_and_and(&(data), 0xffffffff))
# define ATOMIC_STORE_1_TO_32BIT(data) __sync_lock_test_and_set(&(data), 1)
#else
+ /* note that we gained parctical proof that theoretical problems DO occur
+ * if we do not properly address them. See this blog post for details:
+ * http://blog.gerhards.net/2009/01/rsyslog-data-race-analysis.html
+ * The bottom line is that if there are no atomics available, we should NOT
+ * simply go ahead and do without them - use mutexes or other things. The
+ * code needs to be checked against all those cases. -- rgerhards, 2009-01-30
+ */
# warning "atomic builtins not available, using nul operations - rsyslogd will probably be racy!"
# define ATOMIC_INC(data) (++(data))
# define ATOMIC_DEC(data) (--(data))