[openssl-dev] [openssl-team] Discussion: design issue: async and -lpthread

[Salz, Rich]

> "have-atomics" must be known at compile time.
> 
> "lock" should not be needed because we should always have atomics, even
> when we don't have true atomics: just use a global lock in a stub
> implementation of atomic_add() and such.  KISS.  Besides, this will add
> pressure to add true atomics wherever they are truly needed.

Agree.