[Request] Atomic container of enum

[ares128]

As it's underlay storage is in u8, can we have an AtomicBitFlags to store it?

[meithecatte]

Hi, just got reminded of this.

You're right, this is very much an addition that makes sense. There is some work to be done here wrt. designing a sensible API, as well as threading through the AtomicU{n} types (since the underlying storage can actually be any of the unsigned integer types).

One particularly gnarly wrinkle is that the availability of atomics of a given size is platform-dependent, so we'd probably need a separate trait to make this work...

Not opposed to any of it – I might even get to doing this myself at some point.

Until then, you do have the option of marshalling through bits() and from_bits()...

Or if you're interested in working on a PR, I pushed the first steps I made towards this to the atomic branch.