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Introduction

These are types that encapsulate a value whose access is guaranteed to not cause data races and can be used to synchronize memory accesses among different threads and he atomic library provides components for fine-grained atomic operations allowing for lockless concurrent programming. Each atomic operation is indivisible with regards to any other atomic operation that involves the same object.

Atomic type

S.N.	Member types	Definition
1	atomic	Atomic class template and specializations for bool, integral, and pointer types

C-style atomic types

The following are atomic types and also defined in this header.

contained type	atomic type	description
bool	atomic_bool
char	atomic_char	atomics for fundamental integral types. These are either typedefs of the corresponding full specialization of the atomic class template or a base class of such specialization.
signed char	atomic_schar
unsigned char	atomic_uchar
short	atomic_short
unsigned short	atomic_ushort
int	atomic_int
unsigned int	atomic_uint
long	atomic_long
unsigned long	atomic_ulong
long long	atomic_llong
unsigned long long	atomic_ullong
wchar_t	atomic_wchar_t
char16_t	atomic_char16_t
char32_t	atomic_char32_t
intmax_t	atomic_intmax_t	atomics for width-based integrals (those defined in <cinttypes>). Each of these is either an alias of one of the above atomics for fundamental integral types or of a full specialization of the atomic class template with an extended integral type. Where N is one in 8, 16, 32, 64, or any other type width supported by the library.
uintmax_t	atomic_uintmax_t
int_leastN_t	atomic_int_leastN_t
uint_leastN_t	atomic_uint_leastN_t
int_fastN_t	atomic_int_fastN_t
uint_fastN_t	atomic_uint_fastN_t
intptr_t	atomic_intptr_t
uintptr_t	atomic_uintptr_t
size_t	atomic_size_t
ptrdiff_t	atomic_ptrdiff_t

Operations on atomic types

S.N.	Operations	Definition
1	atomic_is_lock_free	It is used to checks if the atomic type's operations are lock-free
2	atomic_store & atomic_store_explicit	It automically replaces the value of the atomic object with a non-atomic argument
3	atomic_load & atomic_load_explicit	It atomically obtains the value stored in an atomic object
4	atomic_exchange & atomic_exchange_explicit	It atomically replaces the value of the atomic object with non-atomic argument and returns the old value of the atomic
5	atomic_compare_exchange_weak & atomic_compare_exchange_weak_explicit & atomic_compare_exchange_strong & atomic_compare_exchange_strong_explicit	It atomically compares the value of the atomic object with non-atomic argument and performs atomic exchange if equal or atomic load if not
6	atomic_fetch_add & atomic_fetch_add_explicit	It adds a non-atomic value to an atomic object and obtains the previous value of the atomic
7	atomic_fetch_sub & atomic_fetch_sub_explicit	It subtracts a non-atomic value from an atomic object and obtains the previous value of the atomic
8	atomic_fetch_and & atomic_fetch_and_explicit	It replaces the atomic object with the result of logical AND with a non-atomic argument and obtains the previous value of the atomic
9	atomic_fetch_or & atomic_fetch_or_explicit	It replaces the atomic object with the result of logical OR with a non-atomic argument and obtains the previous value of the atomic
10	atomic_fetch_xor & atomic_fetch_xor_explicit	It replaces the atomic object with the result of logical XOR with a non-atomic argument and obtains the previous value of the atomic

Flag type and operations

S.N.	Flag type	Definition
1	atomic_flag	The lock-free boolean atomic type
2	atomic_flag_test_and_set & atomic_flag_test_and_set_explicit	It atomically sets the flag to true and returns its previous value
3	atomic_flag_clear & atomic_flag_clear_explicit	It atomically sets the value of the flag to false