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I have include windows.h and want to use InterlockedAdd in vs2010 and compiles error "identifier not found", but the InterlockedIncrement can work well. I try to use:

#include <intrin.h>
#pragma intrinsic(_InterlockedAdd)

and compiles error:

warning C4163: '_InterlockedAdd' : not available as an intrinsic function
1>test10.cpp(107): error C3861: 'InterlockedAdd': identifier not found

What's wrong with the code?

Uwe Keim
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  • http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/524100/interlockedadd-is-where seems to talk about it – jcoder Jan 30 '13 at 12:03

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The InterlockedAdd function is only available on the Itanium platform. On x86 and x86-64 platforms you can use InterlockedExchangeAdd instead. This also adds a value to the target variable, but it returns the original value instead of the new value.

interjay
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