6.13.1 sig_atomic_t Type

Integer type of an object that can be accessed as an atomic entity, even in the presence of asynchronous interrupts.

Attention: This type is not implemented by MPLAB XC8.

Include

<signal.h>

Remarks

Objects of this type (a volatile signed char for MPLAB XC8 for AVR MCUs and an int for other compilers that support signals) can be accessed atomically by a signal handler.

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