Hello guys,
Do ++/-- are atomic operations in c++?
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johnray31
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Jump to PostI doubt there is such a natural atomic operation in C++. If you use a library to force anything to be atomic, then it should. I would say no in this case.
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Taywin
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I doubt there is such a natural atomic operation in C++. If you use a library to force anything to be atomic, then it should. I would say no in this case.
abdelhakeem
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Yes, when applied to integers and pointers they are always atomic, but the overloaded ++/-- are not, since they are translated by the compiler into instructions that are more than one.
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