C code segment for Compare and Exchange that is reasonably multiplatform. From: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13267845/atomic-compare-and-swap-in-assembler-os-independent

Portable CAS code

#ifdef _MSC_VER
# include <intrin.h>
# define CAS(ptr, oldval, newval) \
    _InterlockedCompareExchange(ptr, newval, oldval)
#elif __GNUC__
# if __GNUC__ < 4 || (__GNUC__ == 4 && __GNUC_MINOR__ < 1)
#  error "requires GCC 4.1 or greater"
# endif
# define CAS(ptr, oldval, newval) \
    __sync_val_compare_and_swap(ptr, oldval, newval)
#else
# error "CAS not supported on this platform"
#endif