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Atomic Operations
Functions and Macros by Category

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 macOS; for others, a wxCriticalSection is used to protect the data.

One particular application is reference counting (used by so-called smart pointers).

You should define your variable with the type wxAtomicInt in order to apply atomic operations to it.