Clarify atomic thin layer limitation (see #79)

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Patrick Pelissier committed 2020-12-01 07:27:14 +01:00
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@@ -6511,8 +6511,11 @@ into the global namespace (this is needed because the
C++ standard doesn't support officially the stdatomic header,
resulting in broken compilation when building C code with
a C++ compiler).
Otherwise it provides a non-thin emulation of atomic
using mutex.
using mutex. This emulation has a known theorical limitation:
the mutex are never cleared. There is nothing to do
to fix this. In practise, it is not a problem.
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