Must I call atomic load/store explicitly?

Question

C++11 introduced the std::atomic<> template library. The standard specifies the store() and load() operations to atomically set / get a varia

Answer 1

Are assignment and access operations for non-reference types also atomic?

Yes, they are. atomic::operator T and atomic::operator= are equivalent to atomic::load and atomic::store respectively. All the operators are implemented in the atomic class such that they will use atomic operations as you would expect.

I'm not sure what you mean about "non-reference" types? Not sure how reference types are relevant here.