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

[Salz, Rich]

> I.e., between compiler non-C11 atomic intrinsics, C11 intrinsics, OS atomic
> function libraries, and portable open-source atomics libraries, we can cover
> almost all the bases.

Agreed.

> We have a surfeit of options, not a dearth of them.  I don't think lack of
> atomics primitives is remotely a concern.  We should use atomic primitives in
> OpenSSL.

Yes.  It would be great if we could start collecting snippets so that it can easily be put into the next 1.1 alpha release.  Perhaps on the wiki: 
        https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Examples