Atomics: remove requirement for alignment equality with plain types
This was originally added so that you could replace a T with QAtomicInteger<T> in the same class and still keep ABI. However, for legacy reasons, on 32-bit x86, types larger than 4 bytes keep an old 1990s alignment of only 4 bytes, but modern std::atomic<T> for those 8- byte types enforces an alignment of 8 bytes. Therefore, the requirement to keep alignment is not possible to guarantee. In other words: you may not replace T with QAtomicInteger<T> or std::atomic<T> and assume no ABI breakages in all platforms. This is a requirement to implement atomicity. An 8-byte type aligned to only a 4-byte boundary could cross a 16-byte boundary or, worse, cross a cacheline boundary. Crossing the 16-byte boundary could be bad on some processors, but crossing the cacheline boundary (addresses ending in 0x3C, 0x7C, 0xCC and 0xFC, or 4 out of 64 possible addresses or 6.25%) is always bad: the CPUs cannot guarantee an atomic load or store operation. See also <https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=71660>. Task-number: QTBUG-67858 Change-Id: If90a92b041d3442fa0a4fffd15283e4615474582 Reviewed-by: Frederik Gladhorn <frederik.gladhorn@qt.io>bb10
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template <bool> inline void booleanHelper() { }
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struct TypeInStruct { TEST_TYPE type; };
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void tst_QAtomicIntegerXX::static_checks()
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Q_STATIC_ASSERT(sizeof(QAtomicInteger<T>) == sizeof(T));
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Q_STATIC_ASSERT(Q_ALIGNOF(QAtomicInteger<T>) == Q_ALIGNOF(TypeInStruct));
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// statements with no effect
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(void) QAtomicInteger<T>::isReferenceCountingNative();
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