[issue31654] ctypes should support atomic operations

[Daniel Colascione]

Daniel Colascione <dancol at google.com> added the comment:

On Sun, Oct 1, 2017 at 11:14 AM, Antoine Pitrou <report at bugs.python.org>
wrote:

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> Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:
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> Note that if there is already a C API to perform atomic ops, you can
> simply use ctypes to invoke that API.  Unfortunately, the aforementioned
> GCC builtins seem to be only available as intrinsics (at least I couldn't
> find a shared library that exposes the __atomic_* functions on my system).
>

Right. I performed the same search. On Windows, at least
InterlockedCompareExchange is exported from kernel32.

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