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- /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
- // Name: funcmacro_atomic.h
- // Purpose: Atomic Operation function and macro group docs
- // Author: wxWidgets team
- // Licence: wxWindows licence
- /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
- /**
- @defgroup group_funcmacro_atomic Atomic Operations
- @ingroup group_funcmacro
- When using multi-threaded applications, it is often required to access or
- modify memory which is shared between threads. Atomic integer and pointer
- operations are an efficient way to handle this issue (another, less efficient,
- way is to use a wxMutex or wxCriticalSection). A native implementation exists
- for Windows, Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X; for others, a wxCriticalSection is
- used to protect the data.
- One particular application is reference counting (used by so-called
- @ref group_class_smartpointers "smart pointers").
- You should define your variable with the type wxAtomicInt in order to apply
- atomic operations to it.
- */
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