C26101

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warning C26101: Failing to use interlocked operation properly for variable <var>.

Windows APIs offer a variety of interlocked operations. Annotation _Interlocked_ specifies that a variable should only be accessed through an interlocked operation. Warning C26101 is issued when an access is not consistent with the _Interlocked_ annotation.

Example

The following example generates warning C26101 because there is a violation of the _Interlocked_ contract.

  
CRITICAL_SECTION cs;  
typedef struct _DATA   
{  
    _Interlocked_ LONG data;  
} DATA;  
  
void Safe(DATA* p)   
{  
    InterlockedIncrement(&p->data); // OK  
}  
  
void Unsafe(DATA* p)   
{  
    p->data += 1; // Warning C26101  
    EnterCriticalSection(&cs);  
    LeaveCriticalSection(&cs);  
}