static bool latching_decr_int_should_deallocate()

in src/BlocksRuntime/runtime.c [99:118]

• 20 lines of code
• 6 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

static bool latching_decr_int_should_deallocate(volatile int32_t *where) {
    while (1) {
        int32_t old_value = *where;
        if ((old_value & BLOCK_REFCOUNT_MASK) == BLOCK_REFCOUNT_MASK) {
            return false; // latched high
        }
        if ((old_value & BLOCK_REFCOUNT_MASK) == 0) {
            return false;   // underflow, latch low
        }
        int32_t new_value = old_value - 2;
        bool result = false;
        if ((old_value & (BLOCK_REFCOUNT_MASK|BLOCK_DEALLOCATING)) == 2) {
            new_value = old_value - 1;
            result = true;
        }
        if (OSAtomicCompareAndSwapInt(old_value, new_value, where)) {
            return result;
        }
    }
}