Can add Int and Uint?

[mei-rune]

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[prashantv]

This package wraps the operations in the standard library atomic package:
https://golang.org/pkg/sync/atomic/

int and uint don't have functions in that package, and they have different sizes based on architecture. We could assume worst-case and add functions that assume int64 or uint64, but the user can easily do the same.

The most "correct" solution would be if int and uint used either the 32-bit or 64-bit types underneath based on architecture -- but I'd also want to have the code be architecture agnostic.

[tisonkun]

Yep. int and uint are os dependent and atomic doesn't support it. I think we can close this issue unless others give a more in-detail reason and how to support them.

[tisonkun]

cc @abhinav

[abhinav]

Reasonable. Thanks @tisonkun.