Generic `Atomic<T>` for Rust
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[](https://travis-ci.org/Amanieu/atomic-rs) [](https://crates.io/crates/atomic)
A Rust library which provides a generic `Atomic<T>` type for all `T: NoUninit` types, unlike the standard library which only provides a few fixed atomic types (`AtomicBool`, `AtomicIsize`, `AtomicUsize`, `AtomicPtr`). The `NoUninit` bound is from the [bytemuck] crate, and indicates that a type has no internal padding bytes. You will need to derive or implement this trait for all types used with `Atomic<T>`.
This library will use native atomic instructions if possible, and will otherwise fall back to a lock-based mechanism. You can use the `Atomic::<T>::is_lock_free()` function to check whether native atomic operations are supported for a given type. Note that a type must have a power-of-2 size and alignment in order to be used by native atomic instructions.
This crate uses `#![no_std]` and only depends on libcore.
[bytemuck]: https://docs.rs/bytemuck
[Documentation](https://docs.rs/atomic)
## Usage
Add this to your `Cargo.toml`:
```toml
[dependencies]
atomic = "0.6"
```
and this to your crate root:
```rust
extern crate atomic;
```
## License
Licensed under either of
* Apache License, Version 2.0, ([LICENSE-APACHE](LICENSE-APACHE) or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
* MIT license ([LICENSE-MIT](LICENSE-MIT) or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
at your option.
### Contribution
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