Time to move to C11 atomics?

Posted Jun 19, 2016 23:53 UTC (Sun) by PaXTeam (guest, #24616)
Parent article: Time to move to C11 atomics?

> If C11 atomics are used, this patching is not possible; it is no longer possible to know where those instructions are [...]

the compiler knows where those insns are and a gcc plugin could label them and emit the necessary data structures for the alternatives mechanism.