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<td><a class="bz_bug_link
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title="NEW --- - atomic_load() requiring a pointer to non-const is not helpful."
href="https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=23567">23567</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>atomic_load() requiring a pointer to non-const is not helpful.
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<th>Product</th>
<td>clang
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<th>Version</th>
<td>3.6
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>PC
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<th>OS</th>
<td>Linux
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<th>Status</th>
<td>NEW
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>normal
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>P
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<th>Component</th>
<td>-New Bugs
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>unassignedclangbugs@nondot.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>toojays@toojays.net
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<th>CC</th>
<td>llvmbugs@cs.uiuc.edu
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<th>Classification</th>
<td>Unclassified
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<pre>jscott@citra:/tmp$ cat atomic.c
/* The following lines work around Clang <a class="bz_bug_link
bz_status_NEW "
title="NEW --- - gcc's stdatomic.h is not usable"
href="show_bug.cgi?id=22740">bug 22740</a>, where Clang tries to use
* GCC's stdatomic.h, and fails.
*/
#include <stddef.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#undef __STDC_HOSTED__
#define __STDC_HOSTED__ 0
#define __CLANG_STDINT_H
#include <stdatomic.h>
#undef __CLANG_STDINT_H
#undef __STDC_HOSTED__
#define __STDC_HOSTED__ 1
struct s
{
atomic_int i;
};
int f (const struct s *p_s)
{
return atomic_load(&p_s->i);
}
jscott@citra:/tmp$ clang -std=c11 -c atomic.c
atomic.c:21:10: error: address argument to atomic operation must be a pointer
to non-const _Atomic type ('const atomic_int *' (aka 'const _Atomic(int) *')
invalid)
return atomic_load(&p_s->i);
^ ~~~~~~~
/usr/lib/llvm-3.6/bin/../lib/clang/3.6.1/include/stdatomic.h:134:29: note:
expanded from macro 'atomic_load'
#define atomic_load(object) __c11_atomic_load(object, __ATOMIC_SEQ_CST)
^
1 error generated.
My reading suggests that although this is a strictly correct interpretation of
the C11 standard, it isn't useful. There's no practical reason why
atomic_load() shouldn't accept a pointer to non-const.
Martin Sebor has submitted C defect report 459 about this.
<<a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/dr_459.htm">http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/dr_459.htm</a>>
jscott@citra:/tmp$ clang --version
Ubuntu clang version 3.6.1-svn236856-1~exp1 (branches/release_36) (based on
LLVM 3.6.1)
Target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix</pre>
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