/sys$common/syshlp/HELPLIB.HLB  —  CC  Language topics, Builtin Functions,  CMP SWAP LONG
  Performs a conditional atomic compare and exchange operation on a
  longword.  The longword pointed to by source is read and compared
  with the longword old_value.  If they are equal, the longword
  new_value is written into the longword pointed to by source.  The
  read and write is performed atomically, with no intervening access
  to the same memory region.

  The function returns 1 if the write occurs, and 0 otherwise.

  Syntax:

       int __CMP_SWAP_LONG (volatile void *source, int old_value, int
       new_value);
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