I know that on MacOSX / PosiX systems, there is atomic-compare-and-swap for C/C++ code via g++.
However, I don't need the compare -- I just want to atomically swap two values. Is there an atomic swap operation available? [Everythign I can find is atomic_compare_and_swap ... and I just want to do the swap, without comparing].
Thanks!
Don't think there is. Here's the reference, btw: http://developer.apple.com/Mac/library/documentation/DriversKernelHardware/Reference/libkern_ref/OSAtomic_h/index.html#//apple_ref/doc/header/user_space_OSAtomic.h
Hi, the "lock xchg" intel assembly instruction probably achieves what you want but i dont think there is a GCC wrapper function to make it portable. Therefor your stuck using inline assembly(not portable) or using compare and swap and forcing the compare to be true(inneficient). Hope this helps :-)