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kev009 • yesterday at 5:13 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

C11 has a mutex API (threads.h), so why would it rely on POSIX? Are you sure it's not an runtime detail on one platform? https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/c11-threads-in-visual...

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loeg • yesterday at 10:34 PM

The article has an excerpt using posix mutexes specifically. But you're right that C11 code can just portably use standard mutexes.

  // The old way of manual reference counting
  typedef struct {
      MatchStore* store;
      int ref_count;
      pthread_mutex_t mutex;
  } SharedStore;