Writing to adjacent array elements from different threads?

Writing a native sized value (i.e. 1, 2, 4, or 8 bytes) is atomic (well, 8 bytes is only atomic on 64-bit machines). So, no.

Writing a native type will always write as expected.

Yes, definitely, writing a mis-aligned word that straddles the CPU cache line boundary is not atomic.

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