Assuming Java 6/7/8:

Is there any chance of marking some statement atomic without using e.g. `AtomicInteger`? From my mini research it seems not to be possible generally, however integer/byte/char operations are atomic by itself though ([source](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3449790/java-atomics-operations)).

Obviously, there is `synchronized` but at this point I'd like to avoid it. So the question: can I do sth like `atomic(x++)`?