atomic

Specifies that a memory location that will be updated atomically.

#pragma omp atomic
      expression

Parameters

• expression
  The statement containing the lvalue whose memory location you want to protect against multiple writes. For more information about legal expression forms, see the OpenMP specification.

Remarks

The atomic directive supports no OpenMP clauses.

For more information, see 2.6.4 atomic Construct.

Example

// omp_atomic.cpp
// compile with: /openmp 
#include <stdio.h>
#include <omp.h>

#define MAX 10

int main() {
   int count = 0;
   #pragma omp parallel num_threads(MAX)
   {
      #pragma omp atomic
      count++;
   }
   printf_s("Number of threads: %d\n", count);
}

Number of threads: 10

See Also

Concepts

OpenMP in Visual C++