NAME
kill_dependency —
terminate a dependency chain
SYNOPSIS
#include
<stdatomic.h>
type kill_dependency(type *y);
DESCRIPTION
[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 V1_chap04(7)). The
argument shall not carry a dependency to the return value.
RETURN VALUE
The kill_dependency () macro shall return
the value of
y.
ERRORS
No errors are defined.
EXAMPLES
None.
APPLICATION USAGE
None.
RATIONALE
None.
FUTURE DIRECTIONS
None.
SEE ALSO
CHANGE HISTORY
First released in Issue 8. Included for alignment with the ISO/IEC 9899:2018 standard.