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Authors: WG14, Blaine Garst
Date: 2015-04-15
Reference document: N1927
Submitted against: C11 / C17
Status: Fixed
Fixed in: C17
Converted from: n2396.htm
The 7.17 atomic library section of the standard and the syntax for atomic types arose from different authors. The library section was adopted first and then amended when the syntax proposal was approved during the development of the C11 Standard. The syntax is constructive and applies, with a few exceptions, to all types, including floats and bitfields.
There are a few unfortunate phrasings remaining in the 7.17 Atomics <stdatomic.h> section, however, that have caused a small degree of confusion and are worth fixing.
In 7.17.1 Introduction p3 Replace
and several atomic analogs of integer types.
with
and atomic types declared with the _Atomic or _Atomic() construct.
In 7.17.1 Introduction p5 Replace
- An A refers to one of the atomic types.
with
- An A refers to an atomic type.
In 7.17.6 Atomic Integer Types paragraph 2 replace
The semantics of the operations on these types are defined in 7.17.7
with
The semantics of the operations on atomic types are defined in 7.17.7
Comment from WG14 on 2017-11-03:
Apr 2015 meeting
The first suggested change is incorrect since it is deliberately speaking of the types declared in
<std atomic.h>.After discussion, the direction is
In 7.17.1 Introduction p5 replace
- An A refers to one of the atomic types.
with
- An A refers to an atomic type.
Delete 7.17.6 paragraph 2.
Oct 2015 meeting
The committee accepts the proposed direction as the Proposed Technical Corrigendum.
In 7.17.1p5 replace
- An A refers to one of the atomic types.
with
- An A refers to an atomic type.
Delete 7.17.6 paragraph 2.