David,
>> Thanks for working on that. I had a look and wondered if it might be
>> better to go into slightly less details about the exact atomic
>> function to use. The wording there might lead you to believe you can
>> just call the atomic function on the non-atomic variable.
>>
>> It might be best just to leave the details about how exactly to use
>> atomics by just referencing port/atomics.h.
>>
>> Maybe something like the attached?
>
> Thanks. Agreed and your patch looks good to me.
>
>> I'm also a bit on the fence if this should be backpatched or not. The
>> reasons though maybe not is that it seems unlikely maybe people would
>> not be working in master if they're developing something new. On the
>> other side of the argument, 0ccebe779, which adjusts another README
>> was backpatched. I'm leaning towards backpatching.
>
> Me too. Let's backpatch.
Would you like to push the patch?
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