INVALID_ATOMIC_ORDERING in rustc_lint::types - Rust
Description: The `invalid_atomic_ordering` lint detects passing an `Ordering` to an atomic operation that does not support that ordering.

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## INVALID_ATOMIC_ORDERING

# Static INVALID_ATOMIC_ORDERING

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    static INVALID_ATOMIC_ORDERING: &Lint

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The `invalid_atomic_ordering` lint detects passing an `Ordering` to an atomic operation that does not support that ordering.

#### §Example

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    let atom = AtomicU8::new(0);
    let value = atom.load(Ordering::Release);

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#### §Explanation

Some atomic operations are only supported for a subset of the `atomic::Ordering` variants. Passing an unsupported variant will cause an unconditional panic at runtime, which is detected by this lint.

This lint will trigger in the following cases: (where `AtomicType` is an atomic type from `core::sync::atomic`, such as `AtomicBool`, `AtomicPtr`, `AtomicUsize`, or any of the other integer atomics).

- Passing `Ordering::Acquire` or `Ordering::AcqRel` to `AtomicType::store`.

- Passing `Ordering::Release` or `Ordering::AcqRel` to `AtomicType::load`.

- Passing `Ordering::Relaxed` to `core::sync::atomic::fence` or `core::sync::atomic::compiler_fence`.

- Passing `Ordering::Release` or `Ordering::AcqRel` as the failure ordering for any of `AtomicType::compare_exchange`, `AtomicType::compare_exchange_weak`, `AtomicType::update`, or `AtomicType::try_update`.