Atomic.pointerAdd

Atomically adds val to the value of atomic.

Think of this operation as an atomic version of { tmp = *atomic; *atomic += val; return tmp; }.

This call acts as a full compiler and hardware memory barrier.

struct Atomic
static
ptrdiff_t
pointerAdd
(
void* atomic
,
ptrdiff_t val
)

Parameters

atomic void*

a pointer to a [gpointer-sized|gpointer-sized] value

val ptrdiff_t

the value to add

Return Value

Type: ptrdiff_t

the value of atomic before the add, signed

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Since

2.30