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Atomic variables can be accessed concurrently between different threads without creating race conditions.

/* a global static variable that is visible by all threads */
static unsigned _Atomic active = ATOMIC_VAR_INIT(0);
int myThread(void* a) {
  ++active;         // increment active race free
  // do something
  --active;         // decrement active race free
  return 0;
}

All lvalue operations (operations that modify the object) that are allowed for the base type are allowed and will not lead to race conditions between different threads that access them.

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