atomicPointerGet

Gets the current value of atomic.

This call acts as a full compiler and hardware memory barrier (before the get).

While atomic has a volatile qualifier, this is a historical artifact and the pointer passed to it should not be volatile.

void*
atomicPointerGet
(
void* atomic
)

Parameters

atomic void*

a pointer to a #gpointer-sized value

Return Value

Type: void*

the value of the pointer