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Asked: May 19, 20262026-05-19T01:17:39+00:00 2026-05-19T01:17:39+00:00

What is the reasoning behind Interlocked.Read() only being defined for Int64 and not for

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What is the reasoning behind Interlocked.Read() only being defined for Int64 and not for UInt64? I wouldn’t have thought there was any difference between the two types.

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    2026-05-19T01:17:40+00:00Added an answer on May 19, 2026 at 1:17 am

    The Interlocked class is defined in mscorlib which is CLS-Compliant and UInt32 and UInt64 are, for better or for worse, not CLS-Compliant.

    As for why they are not CLS-Compliant, see this SO article:

    • Why are unsigned int’s not CLS compliant
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