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# acquiring

An acquiring load synchronizes with a releasing operation whose
value its reads. It ensures that the releasing and acquiring
threads agree that all subsequent variable accesses on the
acquiring thread happen after the atomic operation itself.

```
static var acquiring: AtomicLoadOrdering { get }
```

## Discussion

This value corresponds to `std::memory_order_acquire` in C++.

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