Interlocked equivalent on Linux

Question

In a C++ Linux app, what is the simplest way to get the functionality that the Interlocked functions on Win32 provide? Specifically, a lightweight way to atomically increme

Answer 1

Intel's open-source ThreadBuildingBlocks has a template, Atomic, that offers the same functionality as .NET's Interlocked class.

Unlike gcc's Atomic built-ins, it's cross platform and doesn't depend on a particular compiler. As Nemanja Trifunovic correctly points out above, it does depend on the compare-and-swap CPU instruction provided by x86 and Itanium chips. I guess you wouldn't expect anything else from an Intel library : )