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build: Migrate G_ATOMIC_LOCK_FREE docs from configure.ac to meson.build

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The explanation of how G_ATOMIC_LOCK_FREE is meant to be used is useful.

Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
Reviewed-by: nobody
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@ -1434,6 +1434,19 @@ else
endif endif
glibconfig_conf.set('G_ATOMIC_OP_MEMORY_BARRIER_NEEDED', glib_memory_barrier_needed) glibconfig_conf.set('G_ATOMIC_OP_MEMORY_BARRIER_NEEDED', glib_memory_barrier_needed)
# We need to decide at configure time if GLib will use real atomic
# operations ("lock free") or emulated ones with a mutex. This is
# because we must put this information in glibconfig.h so we know if
# it is safe or not to inline using compiler intrinsics directly from
# the header.
#
# We also publish the information via G_ATOMIC_LOCK_FREE in case the
# user is interested in knowing if they can use the atomic ops across
# processes.
#
# We can currently support the atomic ops natively when building GLib
# with recent versions of GCC or MSVC.
#
# Note that the atomic ops are only available with GCC on x86 when # Note that the atomic ops are only available with GCC on x86 when
# using -march=i486 or higher. If we detect that the atomic ops are # using -march=i486 or higher. If we detect that the atomic ops are
# not available but would be available given the right flags, we want # not available but would be available given the right flags, we want