(j3.2006) (SC22WG5.4481) [ukfortran] Added atomic

Craig Dedo craig
Fri Jun 17 17:28:44 EDT 2011


Everyone:
	Even if Nick's concern is not valid, there is another concern:  conceptual
simplicity.  A swap is conceptually simple.  Using some other mechanism to accomplish a
swap is more indirect and therefore more complicated conceptually.

Sincerely,
Craig T. Dedo
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: j3-bounces at j3-fortran.org [mailto:j3-bounces at j3-fortran.org] On Behalf Of
> N.M. Maclaren
> Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 15:55
> To: sc22wg5
> Subject: (j3.2006) (SC22WG5.4481) [ukfortran] Added atomic
> 
> On Jun 17 2011, Bill Long wrote:
> >
> >The list of comments on the coarray TR from Rice suggested adding a SWAP
> >atomic subroutine.    The list in 11-200 includes all of the "common"
> >atomic operations except one: atomic andxor. I'm inclined to add that
> >one, which would make SWAP unnecessary. Or we could add both.  For those
> >who are not big amo users...
> >
> >...
> >
> >If this is added, is there a need for a separate atomic_swap?
> 
> Swapping works reliably and portably when one integer may be negative;
> XOR doesn't.
> 
> Regards,
> Nick.
> 
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