Atomic as_mut_ptr
I encountered the following pattern a few times: In Rust we use some atomic type like `AtomicI32`, and an FFI interface exposes this as `*mut i32` (or some similar `libc` type).
It was not obvious to me if a just transmuting a pointer to the atomic was acceptable, or if this should use a cast that goes through an `UnsafeCell`. See https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/66136#issuecomment-557802477
Transmuting the pointer directly:
```rust
let atomic = AtomicI32::new(1);
let ptr = &atomic as *const AtomicI32 as *mut i32;
unsafe {
ffi(ptr);
}
```
A dance with `UnsafeCell`:
```rust
let atomic = AtomicI32::new(1);
unsafe {
let ptr = (&*(&atomic as *const AtomicI32 as *const UnsafeCell<i32>)).get();
ffi(ptr);
}
```
Maybe in the end both ways could be valid. But why not expose a direct method to get a pointer from the standard library?
An `as_mut_ptr` method on atomics can be safe, because only the use of the resulting pointer is where things can get unsafe. I documented its use for FFI, and "Doing non-atomic reads and writes on the resulting integer can be a data race."
The standard library could make use this method in a few places in the WASM module.
cc @RalfJung as you answered my original question.
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