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| -rw-r--r-- | library/core/src/sync/atomic.rs | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/library/core/src/sync/atomic.rs b/library/core/src/sync/atomic.rs index 1dec2bf40cc..e9a0d9e1d28 100644 --- a/library/core/src/sync/atomic.rs +++ b/library/core/src/sync/atomic.rs @@ -27,8 +27,9 @@ //! Rust atomics currently follow the same rules as [C++20 atomics][cpp], specifically `atomic_ref`. //! Basically, creating a *shared reference* to one of the Rust atomic types corresponds to creating //! an `atomic_ref` in C++; the `atomic_ref` is destroyed when the lifetime of the shared reference -//! ends. (A Rust atomic type that is exclusively owned or behind a mutable reference does *not* -//! correspond to an "atomic object" in C++, since it can be accessed via non-atomic operations.) +//! ends. A Rust atomic type that is exclusively owned or behind a mutable reference does *not* +//! correspond to an “atomic object” in C++, since the underlying primitive can be mutably accessed, +//! for example with `get_mut`, to perform non-atomic operations. //! //! [cpp]: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/atomic //! |