Function
atomicMax
Lock-free implementation of x = max(x, y) .
Parameters
|  Integer to set to  | |
|  Other integer. | 
Remarks
 This is equivalent to
x = max(x, y);
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 While lock-free, the function tries to update x  as long as x < y  in a loop and might run a long time if x is incremented continuously in another thread.
See Also
SeqAn - Sequence Analysis Library - www.seqan.de