InterlockedIncrement

Thread-safe increment

Declaration

Source position: systemh.inc line 1526

  function InterlockedIncrement(var Target: LongInt) : LongInt;
  function InterlockedIncrement(var Target: Pointer) : Pointer;
  function InterlockedIncrement(var Target: Cardinal) : Cardinal;

Description

InterLockedIncrement increments Target with 1 and returns the result. This is done in a thread-safe way (i.e. only one processor is accessing the variable at a time).

Errors

None.

See also

Name	Description
InterlockedCompareExchange	Conditional exchange
InterLockedDecrement	Thread-safe decrement
InterLockedExchange	Exchange 2 integers in a thread-safe way
InterLockedExchangeAdd	Thread-safe add and exchange of 2 values