RFR: 8367014: Rename class Atomic to AtomicAccess [v2]

[Stefan Karlsson]

On Wed, 10 Sep 2025 07:23:58 GMT, Kim Barrett <kbarrett at openjdk.org> wrote:

> > > Although the file "atomic.hpp" is being renamed to "atomicAccess.hpp", I chose
> > > to not rename the various "atomic_." and "atomic__." files.
> > 
> > 
> > Could you motivate why you chose to not do that?
> 
> I thought about it, and waffled back and forth. But I was trying to do as much as possible of this change mechanically. Renaming a file involves multiple steps that weren't all easily scriptable. (And I'd already messed up a part of the renaming of atomic.hpp during patch development.) Also, this change is going to be hard for backports as it is, and I think renamings might make that worse. Renamings can also be annoying for archeology. But if you think it's important...

Sure, renames are annoying. I do think that it is bad to leave inconsistent names in a long-lived, evolving code base.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27135#issuecomment-3273979685