This deadlock would incorrectly change the queue from almost empty to
full on dequeue because someone else could empty the queue after we had
checked its non-emptyness. The test would deadlock on this, which
doesn't happen anymore.
Error::from_string_literal now takes direct char const*s, while
Error::from_string_view does what Error::from_string_literal used to do:
taking StringViews. This change will remove the need to insert `sv`
after error strings when returning string literal errors once
StringView(char const*) is removed.
No functional changes.
This new class with an admittedly long OOP-y name provides a circular
queue in shared memory. The queue is a lock-free synchronous queue
implemented with atomics, and its implementation is significantly
simplified by only accounting for one producer (and multiple consumers).
It is intended to be used as a producer-consumer communication
datastructure across processes. The original motivation behind this
class is efficient short-period transfer of audio data in userspace.
This class includes formal proofs of several correctness properties of
the main queue operations `enqueue` and `dequeue`. These proofs are not
100% complete in their existing form as the invariants they depend on
are "handwaved". This seems fine to me right now, as any proof is better
than no proof :^). Anyways, the proofs should build confidence that the
implemented algorithms, which are only roughly based on existing work,
operate correctly in even the worst-case concurrency scenarios.
