“pseudo-atomic” operations in C++

Question

So I\'m aware that nothing is atomic in C++. But I\'m trying to figure out if there are any \"pseudo-atomic\" assumptions I can make. The reason is that I want to avoid using

Answer 1

It's generally a really, really bad idea to depend on this, as you could end up with bad things happening and only one some architectures. The best solution would be to use a guaranteed atomic API, for example the Windows Interlocked api.