Request for reviews (M): 7017124: VM statistic use 32-bit values which may overflow

[Vladimir Kozlov]

David Holmes wrote:
> Vladimir Kozlov said the following on 02/04/11 12:28:

>> OK, I am taking monotonic statement back. Yes, the value may decrease
>> if a thread loads value before other threads but stores it after other
>> threads already updated it. But I still want to use atomic load and store
>> since otherwise the value will be garbage.
> 
> I totally agree that you want the functionality of inc_counter, with 
> atomic load and store, but that function is not itself atomic and so 
> does not belong in the Atomic class.

OK. I will move it to other place.

Vladimir