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Decrement operators

== Synopses

Declared in `<bsls_atomic.h>`

Atomically decrement the value of this object by 1 and return the resulting value.


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unsigned int
xref:BloombergLP/bsls/AtomicUint/operator_dec-0c.adoc[operator‐‐]();
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Atomically decrement the value of this object by 1 and return the value prior to being decremented.


[source,cpp,subs="verbatim,replacements,macros,-callouts"]
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unsigned int
xref:BloombergLP/bsls/AtomicUint/operator_dec-0f.adoc[operator‐‐](int);
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