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Threads in the new ISO C Standard from 2011

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Atomic Objects<br />

Atomic objects are <strong>new</strong> <strong>in</strong> C11 and similar to Java volatile variables.<br />

Atomic objects can safely be accessed without lock<strong>in</strong>g:<br />

_Atomic <strong>in</strong>t counter = ATOMIC_VAR_INIT(0);<br />

Thread 1 Thread 2<br />

counter++; counter++;<br />

Of course, you may need locks for o<strong>the</strong>r reasons to protect your data.<br />

Atomic objects have a global modification order and all threads see<br />

<strong>the</strong> same modification order.<br />

There is no total modification order of all atomic objects — different<br />

threads can see <strong>the</strong> stores to different atomic objects <strong>in</strong> different<br />

orders.<br />

Jonas Skeppstedt (js@cs.lth.se) Lecture 6 2013 3 / 70

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