[clang] Add clang atomic control options and attribute (PR #114841)

Hubert Tong via cfe-commits cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org
Mon Feb 24 09:50:52 PST 2025


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@@ -5442,6 +5442,155 @@ third argument, can only occur at file scope.
     a = b[i] * c[i] + e;
   }
 
+Extensions for controlling atomic code generation
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+
+The ``[[clang::atomic]]`` statement attribute enables users to control how
+atomic operations are lowered in LLVM IR by conveying additional metadata to
+the backend. The primary goal is to allow users to specify certain options,
+like whether atomic operations may be performed on specific types of memory or
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hubert-reinterpretcast wrote:

whether atomic operations may be performed on specific types of memory
=>
whether the affected atomic operations might be used with specific types of memory

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/114841


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