Summary:
_Atomic and __sync_* operations are implicitly sequentially-consistent. Some
codebases want to force explicit usage of memory order instead. This warning
allows them to know where implicit sequentially-consistent memory order is used.
The warning isn't on by default because _Atomic was purposefully designed to
have seq_cst as the default: the idea was that it's the right thing to use most
of the time. This warning allows developers who disagree to enforce explicit
usage instead.
A follow-up patch will take care of C++'s std::atomic. It'll be different enough
from this patch that I think it should be separate: for C++ the atomic
operations all have a memory order parameter (or two), but it's defaulted. I
believe this warning should trigger when the default is used, but not when
seq_cst is used explicitly (or implicitly as the failure order for cmpxchg).
<rdar://problem/28172966>
Reviewers: rjmccall
Subscribers: dexonsmith, cfe-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D51084
llvm-svn: 341860
JF Bastien