Answer by Palax for What is atomic in boost / C++0x / C++1x / computer sciences?
Is intended for multithreading. It avoids you to have concurrent threads mix operations. An atomic operation is an indivisible operation. You can’t observe such an operation half-done from any thread...
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AFAIK you could use atomic functions to create your own semaphores etc. The name atomic came from atom, you cant break it smaller, so those function calls can't be "broken apart" and paused by the...
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Atomic refers to something which is not divisible.An atomic expression is one that is actually executed by a single operation.For example a++ is not atomic, since to exec it you need first to get the...
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What is atomic in C/C++ programming ?I just visited the dearly cppreference.com (well I don't take the title for granted but wait for my story to finish), and the home changed to describe some of the...
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