# Objective
- Contributes to #15460
- Reduce quantity and complexity of feature gates across Bevy
## Solution
- Used `target_has_atomic` configuration variable to automatically
detect impartial atomic support and automatically switch to
`portable-atomic` over the standard library on an as-required basis.
## Testing
- CI
## Notes
To explain the technique employed here, consider getting `Arc` either
from `alloc::sync` _or_ `portable-atomic-util`. First, we can inspect
the `alloc` crate to see that you only have access to `Arc` _if_
`target_has_atomic = "ptr"`. We add a target dependency for this
particular configuration _inverted_:
```toml
[target.'cfg(not(target_has_atomic = "ptr"))'.dependencies]
portable-atomic-util = { version = "0.2.4", default-features = false }
```
This ensures we only have the dependency when it is needed, and it is
entirely excluded from the dependency graph when it is not. Next, we
adjust our configuration flags to instead of checking for `feature =
"portable-atomic"` to instead check for `target_has_atomic = "ptr"`:
```rust
// `alloc` feature flag hidden for brevity
#[cfg(not(target_has_atomic = "ptr"))]
use portable_atomic_util as arc;
#[cfg(target_has_atomic = "ptr")]
use alloc::sync as arc;
pub use arc::{Arc, Weak};
```
The benefits of this technique are three-fold:
1. For platforms without full atomic support, the functionality is
enabled automatically.
2. For platforms with atomic support, the dependency is never included,
even if a feature was enabled using `--all-features` (for example)
3. The `portable-atomic` feature no longer needs to virally spread to
all user-facing crates, it's instead something handled within
`bevy_platform_support` (with some extras where other dependencies also
need their features enabled).
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