Library: Use atomic readwrite for access to mapping region #77
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* Calling Length on a weak pointer object can change the length of the weak pointer object, because it garbage collects unused entries at the end of the list. * Hence even though we only read, we acquire a readwrite lock
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* As per Reimer's suggestion check for exclusive write access in LengthWPObj. * If we have write access, we discard objects at the end of the list, otherwise we just return the stored length.
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This will be solved by #78, so I am closing this one. |
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weak pointer object, because it garbage collects unused entries
at the end of the list.