From 6c5ef876792d0feb95a49051facd2ac8c43bbceb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James David Berry <jberry@apache.org>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 17:16:29 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Correct description of compareAndSwap
git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/xerces/c/trunk@634750 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
src/xercesc/util/PlatformUtils.hpp | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/xercesc/util/PlatformUtils.hpp b/src/xercesc/util/PlatformUtils.hpp
index 973727c93..1770cc7c9 100644
--- a/src/xercesc/util/PlatformUtils.hpp
+++ b/src/xercesc/util/PlatformUtils.hpp
@@ -612,9 +612,9 @@ public :
* compareAndSwap subroutine performs an atomic operation which
* compares the contents of a single word variable with a stored old
* value. If the values are equal, a new value is stored in the single
- * word variable and TRUE is returned; otherwise, the old value is set
- * to the current value of the single word variable and FALSE is
- * returned.
+ * word variable and the comparison value is returned; otherwise,
+ * no value is stored and the current contents of the stored location
+ * are returned.
*
* The compareAndSwap subroutine is useful when a word value must be
* updated only if it has not been changed since it was last read.
@@ -629,7 +629,7 @@ public :
* against (and conditionally updated with) the value of the single word
* variable.
*
- * @return Returns the new value assigned to the single word variable
+ * @return Returns the initial contents of the single word variable.
*/
static void* compareAndSwap
(
--
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