Re: Atomic operations
"T. Alex Chen" writes:
> I post the following message on debian-devel mailing list but someone says it is the wrong one so I post it here again.
> Please bear with me if you have already seen it.
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> I want to do atomic operation and find there is already such implementation in Linux, e.g. atomic_add, atomic_set, atomic_cmpset, etc, after I google on the Web. I find a libatomic-ops-dev
> package and install it. But there is still no man page after the installation. Did I install the right package? Where can I get the man page of these atomic operations?
>
> Or maybe these operations are only for kernel and not for user applications? ( Highly unlikely, right? )
>From the compiler manual:
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.4.5/gcc/Atomic-Builtins.html#Atomic-Builtins
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Alberto
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