Re: atomics: Why is interlockedCompareExchange8 "safe"?

[mikra]

within the atomics.nim the gcc-api is very different (and better) than the vcc 
ones. a consolidation would be nice. AtomicLoad could be replaced by atomicInc 
or atomicDec but unfortunately not AtomicStore. And doing cas is not the same 
as AtomicStore. If you need two atomics for a specific operation it´s not 
atomic anymore