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Re: Never use strncpy!

From David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c++
Subject Re: Never use strncpy!
Date 2022-09-27 18:07 +0200
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On 27/09/2022 16:17, Scott Lurndal wrote:
> "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> writes:
>> On 9/26/2022 4:39 AM, David Brown wrote:
> 
>> // A RMW operation
>> int
>> fetch_add(
>>      int& origin,
>> ) {
>>       hash_lock(&origin);
>>       int result = origin;
>>       origin = result + 1;
>>       hash_unlock(&origin);
>>       return result;
>> }
>> ________________________
>>
>> Okay, we are atomic. There are other ways to get this done.
>>
>> https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/atomic/atomic/fetch_add
> 
> GCC has had built-ins to generate atomic accesses (e.g. __sync_fetch_and_add)
> for many years now.
> 
> On intel/amd these generate lock prefixes, on other architectures
> with atomic support (e.g. ARMv8 LDADD, et alia) those instructions
> will be generated.

For more demanding cases - sizes larger than the hardware supports 
directly, or read-write-modify on RISC - gcc uses a library that does 
much what Chris has shown here.  The locks are simple busy-wait 
user-space spin locks on an atomic flag, which are very efficient on 
most systems (especially in the common case of no contention). 
Unfortunately, this solution is worse than useless in some cases, such 
as real-time systems and single-core systems.

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  Re: Never use strncpy! "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach@gmail.com> - 2022-09-21 15:06 +0200
  Re: Never use strncpy! David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2022-09-21 15:24 +0200
    Re: Never use strncpy! Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2022-09-21 15:30 +0200
      Re: Never use strncpy! David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2022-09-21 19:20 +0200
        Re: Never use strncpy! Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2022-09-21 19:33 +0200
          Re: Never use strncpy! David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2022-09-21 23:14 +0200
            Re: Never use strncpy! Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2022-09-22 04:40 +0200
              Re: Never use strncpy! David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2022-09-22 08:56 +0200
                Re: Never use strncpy! Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2022-09-22 12:02 +0200
                Re: Never use strncpy! David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2022-09-23 13:23 +0200
                Re: Never use strncpy! Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2022-09-23 13:49 +0200
                Re: Never use strncpy! David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2022-09-23 15:25 +0200
                Re: Never use strncpy! Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2022-09-23 16:03 +0200
                Re: Never use strncpy! scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2022-09-23 14:34 +0000
                Re: Never use strncpy! Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2022-09-23 08:19 -0700
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                Re: Never use strncpy! Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2022-09-24 16:25 +0200
                Re: Never use strncpy! David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2022-09-24 17:09 +0200
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                Re: Never use strncpy! Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2022-09-26 08:34 +0000
                Re: Never use strncpy! David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2022-09-26 13:39 +0200
                Re: Never use strncpy! "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2022-09-26 17:47 -0700
                Re: Never use strncpy! scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2022-09-27 14:17 +0000
                Re: Never use strncpy! David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2022-09-27 18:07 +0200
                Re: Never use strncpy! "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2022-09-27 12:42 -0700
                Re: Never use strncpy! David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2022-09-28 09:32 +0200
                Re: Never use strncpy! "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2022-09-28 13:34 -0700
                Re: Never use strncpy! scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2022-09-28 21:11 +0000
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                Re: Never use strncpy! scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2022-10-01 17:01 +0000
                Re: Never use strncpy! Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2022-10-02 15:32 -0700
                Re: Never use strncpy! scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2022-10-03 14:01 +0000
                Re: Never use strncpy! "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2022-10-03 13:49 -0700
                Re: Never use strncpy! "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2022-10-02 12:46 -0700
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                Re: Never use strncpy! "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2022-10-02 19:43 -0700
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                Re: Never use strncpy! "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2022-10-04 10:53 -0700
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