In Go language, atomic packages supply lower-level atomic memory that is helpful is implementing synchronization algorithms. The LoadUintptr() function in Go language is used to atomically load *addr. This function is defined under the atomic package. Here, you need to import “sync/atomic” package in order to use these functions.
Syntax:
func LoadUintptr(addr *uintptr) (val uintptr)
Here, addr indicates address.
Note: (*uintptr) is the pointer to a uintptr value. And uintptr is an integer type that is too large that it can contain the bit pattern of any pointer.
Return value: It returns the value loaded to the *addr.
Example 1:
// Program to illustrate the usage of // LoadUintptr function in Golang // Including main package package main // importing fmt and sync/atomic import ( "fmt"
"sync/atomic"
) // Main function func main() { // Assigning values
// to the uintptr
var (
i uintptr = 98
j uintptr = 255
k uintptr = 6576567667788
l uintptr = 5
)
// Calling LoadUintptr method
// with its parameters
load_1 := atomic.LoadUintptr(&i)
load_2 := atomic.LoadUintptr(&j)
load_3 := atomic.LoadUintptr(&k)
load_4 := atomic.LoadUintptr(&l)
// Displays uintptr value
// loaded in the *addr
fmt.Println(load_1)
fmt.Println(load_2)
fmt.Println(load_3)
fmt.Println(load_4)
} |
Output:
98 255 6576567667788 5
Example 2:
// Program to illustrate the usage of // LoadUintptr function in Golang // Including main package package main // Importing fmt and sync/atomic import ( "fmt"
"sync/atomic"
) // Main function func main() { // Declaring u
var u uintptr
// For loop
for i := 1; i < 1000; i += 1 {
// Function with
// AddUintptr method
go func() {
atomic.AddUintptr(&u, 9)
}()
}
// Prints loaded values address
fmt.Println(atomic.LoadUintptr(&u))
} |
Output:
1818 // A random value is returned in each run
In the above example, the new values are returned from AddUintptr() method in each call until the loop stops, LoadUintptr() method loads these new uintptr values. And these values are stored in different addresses which can be random one so, the output of the LoadUintptr() method here in each run is different. So, here a random value is returned in the output.