[GHC] #7883: enable GHC LLVM backend to use LLVM provided CAS / Atomicity primitives?

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#7883: enable GHC LLVM backend to use LLVM provided CAS / Atomicity primitives?
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        Reporter:  carter            |            Owner:  carter
            Type:  feature request   |           Status:  new
        Priority:  normal            |        Milestone:
       Component:  Compiler          |          Version:  7.7
      Resolution:                    |         Keywords:
Operating System:  Unknown/Multiple  |     Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple
 Type of failure:  None/Unknown      |       Difficulty:  Unknown
       Test Case:                    |       Blocked By:
        Blocking:                    |  Related Tickets:
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Comment (by carter):

 Ryan, could you explain what you mean by "rewriting trick"?

 I have no idea what you mean.

 Ryan, could you please explain what primops you want using the terminology
 / vocabulary in http://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#ordering and
 http://llvm.org/docs/Atomics.html ?

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