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Rollup merge of rust-lang#54280 - japaric:no-cas-for-thumbv6, r=alexcrichton
remove (more) CAS API from Atomic* types where not natively supported
closesrust-lang#54276
In PR rust-lang#51953 I made the Atomic* types available on targets like thumbv6m and
msp430 with the intention of *only* exposing the load and store API on those
types -- the rest of the API doesn't work on those targets because the are no
native instructions to implement CAS loops.
Unfortunately, it seems I didn't properly cfg away all the CAS API on those
targets, as evidenced in rust-lang#54276. This PR amends the issue by removing the rest
of the CAS API.
This is technically a breaking change because *libraries* that were using this
API and were being compiled for e.g. thumbv6m-none-eabi will stop compiling.
However, using those libraries (before this change) in programs (binaries) would
lead to linking errors when compiled for e.g. thumbv6m so this change
effectively shifts a linker error in binaries to a compiler error in libraries.
On a side note: extending the Atomic API is a bit error prone because of these
non-cas targets. Unless the author of the change is aware of these targets and
properly uses `#[cfg(atomic = "cas")]` they could end up exposing new CAS API on
these targets. I can't think of a test to check that an API is not present on
some target, but we could extend the `tidy` tool to check that *all* newly added
atomic API has the `#[cfg(atomic = "cas")]` attribute unless it's whitelisted in
`tidy` then the author of the change would have to verify if the API can be used
on non-cas targets.
In any case, I'd like to plug this hole ASAP. We can revisit testing in a
follow-up issue / PR.
r? @alexcrichton
cc @mvirkkunen
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