The only valid lowering of atomic stores in the X86 backend was mov from
register to memory. As a result, storing an immediate required a useless copy
of the immediate in a register. Now these can be compiled as a simple mov.
Similarily, adding/and-ing/or-ing/xor-ing an
immediate to an atomic location (but through an atomic_store/atomic_load,
not a fetch_whatever intrinsic) can now make use of an 'add $imm, x(%rip)'
instead of using a register. And the same applies to inc/dec.
This second point matches the first issue identified in
http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=17281
Shouldn't there be a lock prefix on this one to enforce the StoreLoad barrier required by cst? cst is w.r.t. all addresses (unlike every other ordering mode...)