The bootstrapping allocator needs to perform a memcpy to bypass the
removed move constructors on std::atomic. This is safe as there is no
concurrency at this point, but GCC is unhappy with this.
This commit moves CI to GCC8 and disables this warning for that line.
Fixes a few places where Clang complains about Windows specific code,
and also uses macros supported by Clang on Windows. A few places
separating platform and compiler specific code, as MSVC and WIN32 were
used interchangably previously.
HEADER_GLOBAL was using non-standard attributes to achieve what C++17
now permits with a keyword. Use the standard formulation.
Update the README to note that gcc is still not recommended, but because
of its poor codegen for 128-bit atomic compare and exchange, rather than
because it doesn't support the attribute used for HEADER_GLOBAL.