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Generalizing Atomic with templates

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      The Atomic class mostly uses the JNI-specific j-types (jbyte, jshort, jint, jlong). This has led to wide-spread pollution of j-types in the C++ code base.

      Another problem is that when dealing with certain inherently not j-typed types like pointers, hacks were built that allowed them using _ptr member functions that had to be specialized on every architecture supported by Java.

      Yet another problem is yet another exception, like size_t, that does not quite fit being a pointer and isn't necessarily mapped to any j-type. Then yet more exceptions were built on top.

      As a remedy to the above mentioned problems, I propose to generalize the Atomic implementation to use templates instead.

            eosterlund Erik Österlund
            eosterlund Erik Österlund
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