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...

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 …

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

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++ …

But rename() is still atomic in a very important sense: if you use it to overwrite a file, then you will end up with either the old or the new version and nothing else. [update: but as @jonas-wielicki points out in …

Sep 24, 2022 · Answer accepted. I want to add that while atomic_xchg approach works, it is very inefficient (at least on NVIDIA GPUs). By profiling my similarly implemented OpenCL and CUDA …

May 7, 2021 · As you can see from the atomic function documentation, only integer arguments are supported for atomicMax and 64 bit integer arguments are only supported on compute capability 3.5 …

Jun 2, 2015 · In 29.5 Atomic types of the C++ Standard November 2014 working draft it states: There is a generic class template atomic. The type of the template argument T shall be trivially copyable (3.9). [