[New-bugs-announce] [issue30747] _Py_atomic_* not actually atomic on Windows with MSVC

[Pär Björklund]

New submission from Pär Björklund:

_Py_atomic_store and _Py_atomic_load are not implemented as atomic operations on Windows when using Visual Studio to build.

This might cause hard to troubleshoot behaviour, especially in third party hosting applications..

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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 296786
nosy: Paxxi
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: _Py_atomic_* not actually atomic on Windows with MSVC
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.6, Python 3.7

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