Modernizing atomics

[Norbert Thiebaud]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 12:14 PM, Ashod Nakashian <ashnakash at gmail.com> wrote:
> OSL provides atomic helpers (osl_atomic_xxx) in the form of a GNU builtin
> (where available) or a platform-specific implementation.
>
> Any reason for not using modern std::atomic (besides possible lack of
> volunteers) ?
>
>
> As a transitional phase, we can maintain the same interface but with
> std:atomic as the implementation.
>
> Thoughts?

osl atomic are c interface, used in c-source...

Norbert