In the Effective Java book, it states: The language specification guarantees that reading or writing a variable is atomic unless the variable is of type long or double [JLS, 17.4.7]. What do...

Oct 20, 2014 · Why the standard make that difference? It seems as both designate, in the same way, an atomic type.

Apr 30, 2016 · I remember I came across certain types in the C language called atomic types, but we have never studied them. So, how do they differ from regular types like int,float,double,long …

Sep 6, 2018 · Everything works. Note that "atomic" is contextual: in this case, the upsert operation only needs to be atomic with respect to operations on the answers table in the database; the …

May 30, 2010 · In C, is i+=1; atomic?That's true. But the answer to the question "is it atomic" is "no", and the answer to the question "is it non-atomic" is also "no". Rather than act like an …

Jan 12, 2016 · I'm studying Linux kernel with Linux Kernel Development by Robert Love. As you know, this book uses an old version of Linux. It's in 2.6 version. atomic_t has volatile int …

Jul 22, 2019 · static atomic_bool logger_thread_running = ATOMIC_VAR_INIT(true); And using atomic_store and atomic_load to use the boolean. Should I use those instead or is it atomic …

Feb 26, 2009 · The last two are identical; "atomic" is the default behavior (note that it is not actually a keyword; it is specified only by the absence of nonatomic -- atomic was added as a …

I am intending to declare a vector of atomic variables to be used as counters in a multithreaded programme. Here is what I tried: #include <atomic> #include <vector> int main (void) { ...

Jul 23, 2012 · A while back my team needed a mechanism for atomic writes in Python and we came up the following code (also available in a gist): def copy_with_metadata(source, target):