2011 Khronos Group
atomicCounterDecrement 3G
atomicCounterDecrement atomically decrement a counter and return the prior value

## Declaration

uint `atomicCounterDecrement` atomic_uint c

## Parameters

c

  Specify the handle to the atomic counter to decrement.

## Description

`atomicCounterDecrement` atomically decrements the value of the atomic counter c and returns its new value.

## Version Support

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## See Also

atomicCounterIncrement, atomicCounter

## Copyright

Copyright 2011 Khronos Group. This material may be distributed subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Open Publication License, v 1.0, 8 June 1999. http://opencontent.org/openpub/.