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Reading and writing of a single variable is atomic (language guarantee!), unless the variable is of type long or double.
I was reading a course’s slides and I found that written. The class was about concurrency.
Can anyone explain to me why writing a long or a double is not an atomic operation? It really took me by surprise.
It’s not atomic because it’s a multiple-step operation at the machine code level. That is, longs and doubles are longer than the processor’s word length.