[vlc-devel] [PATCH] core: Add atomic refcounter helper

Romain Vimont rom1v at videolabs.io
Sun Jul 1 11:30:33 CEST 2018


On Sun, Jul 01, 2018 at 11:59:08AM +0300, RĂ©mi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> Furthermore the boolean evaluation of the return value is the opposite of what 
> any other ref counting API does (other than VLC's). Usually, zero is for last 
> reference and non-zero for non-last references. Again, this is prone to 
> errors.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/lib/refcount.c?h=v4.17#n208

> Return: true if the resulting refcount is 0, false otherwise


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