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    <info>
        <copyright>
            <year>2011-2014</year>
            <holder>Khronos Group</holder>
        </copyright>
    </info>
    <refmeta>
        <refentrytitle>atomicCounter</refentrytitle>
        <manvolnum>3G</manvolnum>
    </refmeta>
    <refnamediv>
        <refname>atomicCounter</refname>
        <refpurpose>return the current value of an atomic counter</refpurpose>
    </refnamediv>
    <refsynopsisdiv><title>Declaration</title>
        <funcsynopsis>
            <funcprototype>
                <funcdef>uint <function>atomicCounter</function></funcdef>
                <paramdef>atomic_uint <parameter>c</parameter></paramdef>
            </funcprototype>
        </funcsynopsis>
    </refsynopsisdiv>
    <refsect1 xml:id="parameters"><title>Parameters</title>
        <variablelist>
        <varlistentry>
            <term><parameter>c</parameter></term>
            <listitem>
                <para>
                    Specify the handle to the atomic counter whose value to return.
                </para>
            </listitem>
        </varlistentry>
        </variablelist>
    </refsect1>
    <refsect1 xml:id="description"><title>Description</title>
        <para>
            <function>atomicCounter</function> returns the current value of
            the atomic counter <parameter>c</parameter>.
        </para>
    </refsect1>
    <refsect1 xml:id="versions"><title>Version Support</title>
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    <refsect1 xml:id="seealso"><title>See Also</title>
        <para>
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>atomicCounterIncrement</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>atomicCounterDecrement</refentrytitle></citerefentry>
        </para>
    </refsect1>
    <refsect1 xml:id="Copyright"><title>Copyright</title>
        <para>
            Copyright <trademark class="copyright"/> 2011-2014 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.
            <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://opencontent.org/openpub/">http://opencontent.org/openpub/</link>.
        </para>
    </refsect1>
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