[ros-dev] question about InterlockedCompareExchange.

[Jack Yi]

question about InterlockedCompareExchange.

MSDN says: The function returns the initial value of the destination.
I just don't understand, why can we get the initial value of destination as
return value by 'return 0Ch' ?
Thank you!


.text:7C8097A2 ; PVOID __stdcall InterlockedCompareExchange(PVOID
*Destination,PVOID Exchange,PVOID Comperand)
.text:7C8097A2                 public _InterlockedCompareExchange@12
.text:7C8097A2 _InterlockedCompareExchange@12 proc near
.text:7C8097A2                                         ; CODE XREF:
BaseComputeProcessDllPath(x,x)+97B3p
.text:7C8097A2                                         ;
CreateActCtxW(x)+15D2Dp
.text:7C8097A2
.text:7C8097A2 Destination     = dword ptr  4
.text:7C8097A2 Exchange        = dword ptr  8
.text:7C8097A2 Comperand       = dword ptr  0Ch
.text:7C8097A2
.text:7C8097A2                 mov     ecx, [esp+Destination]
.text:7C8097A6                 mov     edx, [esp+Exchange]
.text:7C8097AA                 mov     eax, [esp+Comperand]
.text:7C8097AE
.text:7C8097AE loc_7C8097AE:                           ; DATA XREF:
.data:7C884014o
.text:7C8097AE                 lock cmpxchg [ecx], edx
.text:7C8097B2                 retn    0Ch
.text:7C8097B2 _InterlockedCompareExchange@12 endp