Adding atomic primops

[Johan Tibell]

Hi,

I found myself needing atomic operations on basic, mutable numeric values.
I wrote a short design doc that I'd like feedback on:

https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/AtomicPrimops

I will try to implement these for 7.10.

-- Johan
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