static bool latching_incr_int_not_deallocating()

in src/BlocksRuntime/runtime.c [79:95]

• 14 lines of code
• 5 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

static bool latching_incr_int_not_deallocating(volatile int32_t *where) {
    while (1) {
        int32_t old_value = *where;
        if (old_value & BLOCK_DEALLOCATING) {
            // if deallocating we can't do this
            return false;
        }
        if ((old_value & BLOCK_REFCOUNT_MASK) == BLOCK_REFCOUNT_MASK) {
            // if latched, we're leaking this block, and we succeed
            return true;
        }
        if (OSAtomicCompareAndSwapInt(old_value, old_value+2, where)) {
            // otherwise, we must store a new retained value without the deallocating bit set
            return true;
        }
    }
}