Reason is motsly that dealing with type conversion in calling code is
not great, makes it less readable, and can generate hidden bugs in case
original type changes and atomic primitive calls are not updated
accordingly...
While unlikely to have had any serious effects because of limited use, the
previous implementation was not actually atomic due to a data race and
incorrectly coded CAS loop. We also had duplicates of this code in a few
places, it's now been moved to a single location with all other atomic
operations.
The assembler version in Windows used to return the previous value
of the variable while all the other versions return the new value.
This is now fixed for consistency.
Note: this bug had no effect on blender because no part of the code
use the return value of these functions, but the future BGE DeckLink
module makes use of it to implement reference counter.
This commit:
* Removes most of all dirty internal details from public atomi_ops.h file, and move them into /intern private subdir.
* Removes unused 'architectures' (__apple__ and jemalloc).
* Split each implementation into its own file.
* Makes use of C99's limits.h system header to determine pointer and int size, instead of using fix hardcoded list of architectures.
* Introduces new 'faked' atomics ops for floats.
Note that we may add a lot more real and 'faked' atomic operations over integers and floats
(multiplication, division, bitshift, bitwise booleans, etc.), as needs arise.
Reviewers: sergey, campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1982
