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Andrew Brown f026d95a1a wiggle: add initial support for shared memory (#5225)
This change is the first in a series of changes to support shared memory
in Wiggle. Since Wiggle was written under the assumption of
single-threaded guest-side access, this change introduces a `shared`
field to guest memories in order to flag when this assumption will not
be the case. This change always sets `shared` to `false`; once a few
more pieces are in place, `shared` will be set dynamically when a shared
memory is detected, e.g., in a change like #5054.

Using the `shared` field, we can now decide to load Wiggle values
differently under the new assumptions. This change  makes the guest
`T::read` and `T::write` calls into `Relaxed` atomic loads and stores in
order to maintain WebAssembly's expected memory consistency guarantees.
We choose Rust's `Relaxed` here to match the `Unordered` memory
consistency described in the [memory model] section of the ECMA spec.
These relaxed accesses are done unconditionally, since we theorize that
the performance benefit of an additional branch vs a relaxed load is
not much.

[memory model]: https://tc39.es/ecma262/multipage/memory-model.html#sec-memory-model

Since 128-bit scalar types do not have `Atomic*` equivalents, we remove
their `T::read` and `T::write` implementations here. They are unused by
any WASI implementations in the project.
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