_InterlockedExchange Intrinsic Functions
Microsoft Specific
Provide compiler intrinsic support for the Win32 Platform SDK InterlockedExchange function.
long _InterlockedExchange( long * Target, long Value ); long _InterlockedExchange_acq( long * Target, long Value ); __int64 _InterlockedExchange64( __int64 * Target, __int64 Value ); __int64 _InterlockedExchange64_acq( __int64 * Target, __int64 Value );
Parameters
- [in, out] Target
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Pointer to the value to be exchanged. The function sets this variable to Value and returns its prior value.
- [in] Value
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Value to be exchanged with the value pointed to by Target.
There are several variations on _InterlockedExchange that vary based on the data types they involve and whether processor-specific acquire or release semantics is used.
While the _InterlockedExchange function operates on 32-bit integer values, _InterlockedExchange64 operates on 64-bit integer values.
The _InterlockedExchange_acq and _InterlockedExchange64_acq intrinsic functions are the same as the corresponding functions without the _acq suffix except that the operation is performed with acquire semantics, which is useful when entering a critical section.
There is no version of this function that uses release semantics.
In Visual C++ 2005, these functions behave as read-write memory barriers. For more information, see _ReadWriteBarrier.
These routines are only available as intrinsics.