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SDL::AtomicInt Struct Reference

A type representing an atomic integer value. More...

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Public Member Functions

constexpr AtomicInt (int value)
 Wraps AtomicInt. More...
 
 AtomicInt (const AtomicInt &value)=delete
 
AtomicIntoperator= (const AtomicInt &value)=delete
 
bool CompareAndSwap (int oldval, int newval)
 Set an atomic variable to a new value if it is currently an old value. More...
 
int Set (int v)
 Set an atomic variable to a value. More...
 
int Get ()
 Get the value of an atomic variable. More...
 
int Add (int v)
 Add to an atomic variable. More...
 
bool AtomicIncRef ()
 Increment an atomic variable used as a reference count. More...
 
bool AtomicDecRef ()
 Decrement an atomic variable used as a reference count. More...
 

Detailed Description

This can be used to manage a value that is synchronized across multiple CPUs without a race condition; when an app sets a value with AtomicInt.Set all other threads, regardless of the CPU it is running on, will see that value when retrieved with AtomicInt.Get, regardless of CPU caches, etc.

This is also useful for atomic compare-and-swap operations: a thread can change the value as long as its current value matches expectations. When done in a loop, one can guarantee data consistency across threads without a lock (but the usual warnings apply: if you don't know what you're doing, or you don't do it carefully, you can confidently cause any number of disasters with this, so in most cases, you should use a mutex instead of this!).

This is a struct so people don't accidentally use numeric operations on it directly. You have to use SDL atomic functions.

Since
This struct is available since SDL 3.2.0.
See also
AtomicInt.CompareAndSwap
AtomicInt.Get
AtomicInt.Set
AtomicInt.Add

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

◆ AtomicInt()

constexpr SDL::AtomicInt::AtomicInt ( int  value)
inlineconstexpr
Parameters
valuethe value for value.

The documentation for this struct was generated from the following file: