is increment on shared ulong atomic operation?
rsw0x via Digitalmars-d-learn
digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Sun Feb 7 11:39:27 PST 2016
On Sunday, 7 February 2016 at 19:27:19 UTC, Charles Hixson wrote:
> If I define a shared ulong variable, is increment an atomic
> operation?
> E.g.
>
> shared ulong t;
>
> ...
>
> t++;
>
> It seems as if it ought to be, but it could be split into read,
> increment, store.
>
> I started off defining a shared struct, but that seems silly,
> as if the operations defined within a shared struct are synced,
> then the operation on a shared variable should be synced, but
> "+=" is clearly stated not to be synchronized, so I'm uncertain.
https://dlang.org/phobos/core_atomic.html#.atomicOp
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