Aug 13, 2015 · Objects of atomic types are the only C++ objects that are free from data races; that is, if one thread writes to an atomic object while another thread reads from it, the behavior is well-defined. …

May 8, 2015 · In the Effective Java book, it states: The language specification guarantees that reading or writing a variable is atomic unless the variable is of type long or double [JLS, 17.4.7]. What do...

Oct 20, 2014 · Why the standard make that difference? It seems as both designate, in the same way, an atomic type.

Apr 30, 2016 · I remember I came across certain types in the C language called atomic types, but we have never studied them. So, how do they differ from regular types like int,float,double,long etc., and …

Jun 4, 2014 · The definition of atomic is hazy; a value that is atomic in one application could be non-atomic in another. For a general guideline, a value is non-atomic if the application deals with only a …

The reason num++ appears to be atomic is because on x86 machines, incrementing a 32-bit integer is, in fact, atomic (assuming no memory retrieval takes place). But this is neither guaranteed by the c++ …

reference assignment is atomic so why is Interlocked.Exchange (ref Object, Object) needed? Reference assignment is atomic. Interlocked.Exchange does not do only reference assignment. It does a read …

How do atomic / volatile / synchronized work internally? What is the difference between the following code blocks? Code 1 private int counter; public int getNextUniqueIndex() { return count...

Jan 17, 2013 · 7 How are atomic operations made thread-safe? I've read about the subject in Wikipedia's article on thread-safety. But the article didn't really explain the process behind the …

Jul 23, 2012 · Is it only creation of the destination that needs to be atomic, but also having the source contents, as read, represent only a single point-in-time?