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Type: New Feature
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Resolution: Fixed
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Priority: Major - P3
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Affects Version/s: None
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Component/s: Internal Code
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None
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Fully Compatible
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Service Arch 2019-05-20, Service Arch 2019-06-03
AtomicWord offers a slightly less dangerous, doesn't require lint, access to std::atomic's.
While that interface currently doesn't offer access to bit operations, the extra cognitive load to understand those correctly is substantially simpler than the main thing AtomicWord hides (access to non sequential consistency).
Thus, let's add bitwise operators for unsigned atomic words