RFR 8161444 VarHandles should provide access bitwise atomics

[Paul Sandoz]

> On 10 Aug 2016, at 09:41, Aleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 08/10/2016 03:14 AM, Paul Sandoz wrote:
>>  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psandoz/jdk9/JDK-8161444-vhs-bitwise-atomics/webrev/
> 
> *) I probably missed this discussion, but why do we have bitwise ops on
> boolean? I don't think boolean is a integral type to have exposed bit
> representation. (Edit: this seems useful to get atomic {add, or, xor}
> over the booleans themselves, not their "bits" -- confusing at first.)
> 

I included boolean for completeness, but i agree it’s a little confusing, it should be a “Logical” in this context e.g.:

  https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se8/html/jls-15.html#jls-15.22.2 <https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se8/html/jls-15.html#jls-15.22.2>

Perhaps we can add a note stating this?

Paul.