added initial support for atomic operations

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+/* This header supplies atomic operations. So far, we rely on GCC's
+ * atomic builtins. I have no idea if we can check them via autotools,
+ * but I am making the necessary provisioning to live without them if
+ * they are not available. Please note that you should only use the macros
+ * here if you think you can actually live WITHOUT an explicit atomic operation,
+ * because in the non-presence of them, we simply do it without atomicitiy.
+ * Which, for word-aligned data types, usually (but only usually!) should work.
+ *
+ * THESE MACROS MUST ONLY BE USED WITH WORD-SIZED DATA TYPES!
+ *
+ * Copyright 2008 Rainer Gerhards and Adiscon GmbH.
+ *
+ * This file is part of rsyslog.
+ *
+ * Rsyslog is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * Rsyslog is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with Rsyslog.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ *
+ * A copy of the GPL can be found in the file "COPYING" in this distribution.
+ */
+#include "config.h" /* autotools! */
+
+#ifndef INCLUDED_ATOMIC_H
+#define INCLUDED_ATOMIC_H
+
+#define ATOMIC_INC(data) __sync_fetch_and_add(&data, 1);
+
+#endif /* #ifndef INCLUDED_ATOMIC_H */