atomic.ml

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(*                                 OCaml                                  *)
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(*                 Stephen Dolan, University of Cambridge                 *)
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(*   Copyright 2017-2018 University of Cambridge.                         *)
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(*   the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1, with the          *)
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type !'a t

external make : 'a -> 'a t = "%makemutable"
external make_contended : 'a -> 'a t = "caml_atomic_make_contended"
external get : 'a t -> 'a = "%atomic_load"
external exchange : 'a t -> 'a -> 'a = "%atomic_exchange"
external compare_and_set : 'a t -> 'a -> 'a -> bool = "%atomic_cas"
external fetch_and_add : int t -> int -> int = "%atomic_fetch_add"
external ignore : 'a -> unit = "%ignore"

let set r x = ignore (exchange r x)
let incr r = ignore (fetch_and_add r 1)
let decr r = ignore (fetch_and_add r (-1))