kill_dependency — terminate a dependency chain
#include <stdatomic.h>
type kill_dependency(type *y);
[CX] The functionality described on this reference page is aligned with the ISO C standard. Any conflict between the requirements described here and the ISO C standard is unintentional. This volume of POSIX.1-2024 defers to the ISO C standard.Implementations that define the macro __STDC_NO_ATOMICS__ need not provide the <stdatomic.h> header nor support the kill_dependency() macro.
The kill_dependency() macro shall terminate a dependency chain (see XBD 4.15.1 Memory Ordering ). The argument shall not carry a dependency to the return value.
The kill_dependency() macro shall return the value of y.
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First released in Issue 8. Included for alignment with the ISO/IEC 9899:2018 standard.
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