GCC support stdatomic.h since 4.9 On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 10:21 PM, Tom M. <tom.m...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Not really. It's not done by simply switching to a C++ compiler. The data > types should be converted to object-oriented ones and the > checking-every-functions-return-value-mentality should be rethought. > Usage of STL containers would need to be considered in order to unleash C++ > whole power. And we would still need a C abstraction layer for every public > API-header to allow fluidsynth to be linked according to the C linkage > spec. This is a pretty expensive job when done correctly. > > One might think about using C++11 only as an OSAL (threading, atomics, > mutexes, condition_vars): https://github.com/paulsapps/fluidsynth/commit/ > 1cb572fcca0a09107d85b066c1a55bd55b7574ab > > Dont know about the portability of std c++11 libraries on other than Linux > or Win. Also one would somehow need to get C++11's fixed width integers to > work with C89 code (not sure if that's possible at all). > > Esp. getting atomics to work is non trivial. > > ...one might think about using some mixture of C11 / C++11, i.e. C11 for > the atomics and cstdint part, C++11 for the threading part. Although C11 > atomics seem to optional as well. > > > Tom > > > 2017-10-06 18:48 GMT+02:00 Philippe Simons <simons.phili...@gmail.com>: > >> damn! and I guess moving to C++11 is not an option >> >> On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 5:55 PM, Tom M. <tom.m...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> >>> This is for C++11 only. >>> >>> And as I just learned: The threading part of C11 is optional, which is >>> very disappointing. Because it means that even though clang and gcc claim >>> to be feature complete, glibc is (still) lacking support for the IMO most >>> important part of C11: Threading ( see https://sourceware.org/bugzill >>> a/show_bug.cgi?id=14092 ) >>> >>> Thus it is questionable if we can ever move to C11, even if one day also >>> glibc has C11 Thread support. >>> >>> >>> Tom >>> >>> >>> 2017-10-06 16:56 GMT+02:00 Philippe Simons <simons.phili...@gmail.com>: >>> >>>> According to https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh567368.aspx >>>> >>>> VS2015 should have decent enough C11 support for threads and atomics. >>>> Or is only for C++11 ? >>>> >>>> Philippe >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> fluid-dev mailing list >>>> fluid-dev@nongnu.org >>>> https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-dev >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> fluid-dev mailing list >>> fluid-dev@nongnu.org >>> https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-dev >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> fluid-dev mailing list >> fluid-dev@nongnu.org >> https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-dev >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > fluid-dev mailing list > fluid-dev@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-dev > >
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