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std::atomic_ref<T>:: atomic_ref

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explicit atomic_ref ( T & obj ) ;
(1) (constexpr since C++26)
atomic_ref ( const atomic_ref & ref ) noexcept ;
(2) (constexpr since C++26)

Constructs a new atomic_ref object.

1) Constructs an atomic_ref object referencing the object obj .
If obj is not aligned to required_alignment , the behavior is undefined.
2) Constructs an atomic_ref object referencing the object referenced by ref .

Parameters

obj - object to reference
ref - another atomic_ref object to copy from

Example

The program increments the values in a container using several threads. Then the final sum is printed. Non-atomic access may "loss" the results of some operations due to data-races.

Run this code 
#include <atomic>
#include <iostream>
#include <numeric>
#include <thread>
#include <vector>
int main()
{
    using Data = std::vector<char>;
    auto inc_atomically = [](Data& data)
    {
        for (Data::value_type& x : data)
        {
            auto xx = std::atomic_ref<Data::value_type>(x);
            ++xx; // atomic read-modify-write
        }
    };
    auto inc_directly = [](Data& data)
    {
        for (Data::value_type& x : data)
            ++x;
    };
    auto test_run = [](const auto Fun)
    {
        Data data(10'000'000);
        {
            std::jthread j1{Fun, std::ref(data)};
            std::jthread j2{Fun, std::ref(data)};
            std::jthread j3{Fun, std::ref(data)};
            std::jthread j4{Fun, std::ref(data)};
        }
        std::cout << "sum = " << std::accumulate(cbegin(data), cend(data), 0) << '\n';
    };
    test_run(inc_atomically);
    test_run(inc_directly);
}

Possible output: 

sum = 40000000
sum = 39994973