[cairo] Re: Atomic reference counting

[Ross Burton]

On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 10:58 -0400, Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
> What about introducing
> 
>   typedef struct {
>       unsigned int value;
>   } cairo_atomic_t;
> 
> and use that for ref counts to let the type checker make sure we only
> ever manipulate the ref counts using the atomic operations.  The
> atomic integer operations have to be changed to take a pointer to this
> struct and we need a getter and a setter, of course.

Agreed.  I find it a bit irritating that GLib's atomic ints are plain
"volatile int" because its easy to forget and use the normal operators.

Ross
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