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C
28 lines
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// Name: funcmacro_atomic.h
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// Purpose: Atomic Operation function and macro group docs
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// Author: wxWidgets team
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// Licence: wxWindows licence
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/**
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@defgroup group_funcmacro_atomic Atomic Operations
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@ingroup group_funcmacro
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When using multi-threaded applications, it is often required to access or
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modify memory which is shared between threads. Atomic integer and pointer
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operations are an efficient way to handle this issue (another, less efficient,
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way is to use a wxMutex or wxCriticalSection). A native implementation exists
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for Windows, Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X; for others, a wxCriticalSection is
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used to protect the data.
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One particular application is reference counting (used by so-called
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@ref group_class_smartpointers "smart pointers").
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You should define your variable with the type wxAtomicInt in order to apply
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atomic operations to it.
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*/
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