Using C++11+ in hotspot

[Andrew Haley]

On 08/08/2018 07:51 AM, Erik Osterlund wrote:

> So basically, my answer to your question is: no we do not and should
> not care. And that message ought to be documented somewhere to
> remove all uncertainty and inconsistency around that reoccuring
> question.

That sounds sensible.  I guess that if we use -fno-strict-aliasing
then we can cast *T to *atomic<T>.  I can ask on gcc@ to be sure.

Having said that, I wouldn't.  gcc builtins do what we need anyway, at
least for platform-specific code.

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