1Generic `Atomic<T>` for Rust
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6A 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>`.
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8This 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.
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10This crate uses `#![no_std]` and only depends on libcore.
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12[bytemuck]: https://docs.rs/bytemuck
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14[Documentation](https://docs.rs/atomic)
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16## Usage
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18Add this to your `Cargo.toml`:
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20```toml
21[dependencies]
22atomic = "0.6"
23```
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25and this to your crate root:
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27```rust
28extern crate atomic;
29```
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31## License
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33Licensed under either of
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35 * Apache License, Version 2.0, ([LICENSE-APACHE](LICENSE-APACHE) or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
36 * MIT license ([LICENSE-MIT](LICENSE-MIT) or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
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38at your option.
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40### Contribution
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42Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted
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