I have noticed that AtomicPtr, despite being just a way to atomically set a pointer (the address not the value being pointed to), is Send + Sync, therefore providing a Send + Sync *mut T.

*mut T is explicitly !Send + !Sync, because it is possible to cause race conditions with *mut T.
This is still entirely true for AtomicPtr.

So why is AtomicPtr Send + Sync?

Edit: The moment i created the thread i see another one from 2015. AtomicPtr used to be !Send + !Sync.

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