AtomicCounter::is_always_lock_free on armel

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

Hi,

LibreOffice 6.4.0 alpha1 was just accepted into Debian experimental and failed on armel
(old arm gnueabi):

In file included from /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/vcl/source/app/svmain.cxx:90:
/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/vcl/inc/opengl/zone.hxx:39:34: error: static assertion failed
   39 |     static_assert(AtomicCounter::is_always_lock_free);
      |                   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
make[2]: *** [/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/solenv/gbuild/LinkTarget.mk:296: /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/workdir/CxxObject/vcl/source/app/svmain.o] Error 1

If I run git blame/log I see

commit ec17c8ec5256386b0197a8ffe5d7cad3e7d70f8f
Author: Stephan Bergmann <sbergman@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue Sep 17 20:39:43 2019 +0200

    -Werror=volatile in OpenGLZone
    
    Recent GCC 10 trunk in C++20 mode reports issues like
    
    > vcl/inc/opengl/zone.hxx:37:21: error: ‘++’ expression of ‘volatile’-qualified type is deprecated [-Werror=volatile]
    >    37 |      OpenGLZone() { gnEnterCount++; }
    >       |                     ^~~~~~~~~~~~
    
    so look for a type that is more appropriate here (see the comment added to
    vcl/inc/opengl/zone.hxx for details).  (Though calls like
    OpenGLZone::isInZone(), comparing gnEnterCount and gnLeaveCount, in
    OpenGLWatchdogThread::execute are still not done atomically, of course.)
    
    Change-Id: Ie5563addc65f629336f89cbccb73f7b9ac5e9870
    Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/79072
    Tested-by: Jenkins
    Reviewed-by: Stephan Bergmann <sbergman@redhat.com>


which added

+    // gnEnterCount and gnLeaveCount are accessed both from multiple threads (cf.
+    // OpenGLWatchdogThread::execute; so need to be of atomic type) and from signal handlers (cf.
+    // VCLExceptionSignal_impl; so need to be of lock-free atomic type).  sig_atomic_t is chosen as
+    // the underlying type under the assumption that it is most likely to lead to an atomic type
+    // that is actually lock-free.  However, gnEnterCount and gnLeaveCount are both monotonically
+    // increasing, so will eventually overflow, so the underlying type better be unsigned, which
+    // sig_atomic_t is not guaranteed to be:
+    using AtomicCounter = std::atomic<std::make_unsigned_t<std::sig_atomic_t>>;
+    static_assert(AtomicCounter::is_always_lock_free);

Looking at https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/atomic/atomic/is_always_lock_free it is "/* implemtation defined */"
so is it always false on armel?

Does that mean we need to drop LibreOffice support on armel or is there some way out of it?
(even though OpenGL is probably no thing on armel, I'd be wary to just
remove the assert...)

Regards,

Rene