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-rw-r--r--lib/pure/concurrency/atomics.nim5
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diff --git a/lib/pure/concurrency/atomics.nim b/lib/pure/concurrency/atomics.nim
index a3ef2f5f7..818f1b37a 100644
--- a/lib/pure/concurrency/atomics.nim
+++ b/lib/pure/concurrency/atomics.nim
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@
 ## Types and operations for atomic operations and lockless algorithms.
 ##
 ## Unstable API.
+## 
+## By default, C++ uses C11 atomic primitives. To use C++ `std::atomic`,
+## `-d:nimUseCppAtomics` can be defined.
 
 runnableExamples:
   # Atomic
@@ -50,7 +53,7 @@ runnableExamples:
   flag.clear(moRelaxed)
   assert not flag.testAndSet
 
-when (defined(cpp) and not defined(nimUseCAtomics)) or defined(nimdoc):
+when (defined(cpp) and defined(nimUseCppAtomics)) or defined(nimdoc):
   # For the C++ backend, types and operations map directly to C++11 atomics.
 
   {.push, header: "<atomic>".}