ATOMIC_VAR_INIT

[TA]

Anthony,

Could you please explain what ATOMIC_VAR_INIT is used for? I couldn't find any useful information on that (or maybe I just coulnd't get it). As far as I understood it is used to initialize atomic variables in some special way, but what kind of initialization is done? When it might be useful? All the examples I could find was
atomic<int> t = ATOMIC_VAR_INIT(2);
why not just
atomic<int> t = 2;
what's the difference?

[Anthony Williams]

Could you please explain what ATOMIC_VAR_INIT is used for? I couldn't find any useful information on that (or maybe I just coulnd't get it). As far as I understood it is used to initialize atomic variables in some special way, but what kind of initialization is done? When it might be useful? All the examples I could find was
atomic<int> t = ATOMIC_VAR_INIT(2);
why not just
atomic<int> t = 2;
what's the difference?

ATOMIC_VAR_INIT is there for C compatibility, since you can't write

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atomic_int i(3);
in C, but you can write

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atomic_int i=ATOMIC_VAR_INIT(3);
in both C and C++.

[TA]

Got it. Thanks.