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Visual Studio 2022 adds C++ atomics

December 22, 2022

Via: InfoWorld
Visual Studio 2022 17.5 Preview 2, the second preview of a planned upgrade to Microsoft’s signature IDE (integrated development environment), adds a number of usability improvements including a new search experience, .NET capabilities such as publishing ASP.NET projects to Azure Container Apps, and C++ capabilities such as experimental support for C11 atomics.

Visual Studio 2022 17.5 Preview 2 was published December 13, and is now accessible from the Visual Studio website. For C++, Microsoft has added an experimental implementation of C11 atomics to MSVC (Microsoft C++), available as an option with the /experimental:c11atomics flag in /std:c11 mode or later. Operations on atomic types are operations that are guaranteed to be executed as a single transaction.

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