It would be great if somebody could take a look at
PR96159. 

It seems we do not do atomic accesses correctly
when the alignment is insufficient for a lockfree
access, but I think we should fall back to a
library call in this case (as clang does).

This is very unfortunate as it is an important
functionality to be able to do atomic accesses 
on non-atomic types and it seems there is no way
to achieve this.

Also documentation and various descriptions of
the atomic functions imply that this is expected
to work.

But maybe I am missing something and the generated
code is indeed safe.

Martin


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