Thanks for the reference, I knew about C11 atomic types, and, I should have use a better phrasing. Note that C11 atomics are still not applicable to multi-word

Thanks for the reference, I knew about C11 atomic types, and, I should have use a better phrasing. Note that C11 atomics are still not applicable to multi-word aggregate types, like structs. You'd use atomics in C11 (in the type system), for what you'd use sync/atomic (like other poster mentioned) in Go (outside the type system).