jbyte Atomic::cmpxchg(jbyte exchange_value, volatile jbyte* dest, jbyte compare_value) {
assert(sizeof(jbyte) == 1, "assumption.");
uintptr_t dest_addr = (uintptr_t)dest;
uintptr_t offset = dest_addr % sizeof(jint);
volatile jint* dest_int = (volatile jint*)(dest_addr - offset);
jint cur = *dest_int;
jbyte* cur_as_bytes = (jbyte*)(&cur);
jint new_val = cur;
jbyte* new_val_as_bytes = (jbyte*)(&new_val);
new_val_as_bytes[offset] = exchange_value;
while (cur_as_bytes[offset] == compare_value) {
jint res = cmpxchg(new_val, dest_int, cur);
if (res == cur) break;
cur = res;
new_val = cur;
new_val_as_bytes[offset] = exchange_value;
}
return cur_as_bytes[offset];
}