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    gatomic: Tweak __atomic_load*() calls to work with -Wbad-function-cast · 194df27f
    Philip Withnall authored
    When compiling third-party projects with -Wbad-function-cast, the inline
    g_atomic_pointer_get() implementation which uses C11 __atomic_load*()
    calls on GCC was causing compilation errors like:
    
       error: cast from function call of type ‘long unsigned int’ to non-matching type ‘void *’
    
    While we don’t want to compile all of GLib with -Wbad-function-cast, we
    should support its headers being included in projects which do enable
    that warning.
    
    It doesn’t seem to be possible to cast away the warning (e.g. by casting
    the function’s result through (void)), so we have to assign to an
    intermediate integer of the right size first.
    
    The same has to be done for the bool return value from
    __sync_bool_compare_and_swap(). In that case, casting from bool to
    gboolean raises a -Wbad-function-cast warning, since gboolean is
    secretly int.
    
    The atomic tests have been modified to enable -Wbad-function-cast to
    catch regressions of this in futur...
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