Traditionally, C and C++ have a long tradition of portable code for system programming. The atomic feature that was introduced in the C++11 standard reinforces this by adding, natively, the guarantee that an operation is seen as atomic by other threads. Atomic is a template, such as template <class T> struct atomic; or template <class T> struct atomic<T*>;. C++20 has added shared_ptr and weak_ptr to T and T*. Any operation that's performed on the atomic variable is now protected from other threads.
Learning how atomic works
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std::atomic is an important aspect of modern C++ for dealing with concurrency. Let's write some code to master the...
