[gnutls-devel] GnuTLS | WIP: fixed operation under multiple threads (!935)

[Development of GNU's TLS library]

As you already said, on all supported platform the read and write to/from int already is atomic. Making the variable atomic just helps unsupported platforms (e.g. 16 bit data bus).

What I think of is code like
```
if (session->internals.recv_state != RECV_STATE_FALSE_START &&
    session->internals.recv_state != RECV_STATE_FALSE_START_HANDLING &&
    session->internals.recv_state != RECV_STATE_EARLY_START &&
    session->internals.recv_state != RECV_STATE_EARLY_START_HANDLING &&
    !(session->internals.hsk_flags & HSK_EARLY_DATA_IN_FLIGHT))
...
```

If a non-optimizing compiler reads the variable 4x, this allows a second thread to change the value between two comparisons. It might be unlikely, but to be sure you would save `session->internals.recv_state` into a temp variable and use that for comparison.

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