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Mixing atomics between C and Rust

· Users Rust Lang · Aug. 21, 2026, 6:23 p.m.

c-programming Rust Programming atomic operations Language interoperability

Summary

The blog post poses a question regarding the legality of using atomic operations from both C and Rust on the same memory pointer, seeking clarification on the interoperability of atomic operations in these languages.

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