diff --git a/doc/release-notes/iceoryx2-unreleased.md b/doc/release-notes/iceoryx2-unreleased.md
index 877cac817..6b6250db4 100644
--- a/doc/release-notes/iceoryx2-unreleased.md
+++ b/doc/release-notes/iceoryx2-unreleased.md
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@
   [#1289](https://github.com/eclipse-iceoryx/iceoryx2/issues/1289)
 * Add source `NodeId` to request and response header
   [#1308](https://github.com/eclipse-iceoryx/iceoryx2/issues/1308)
+* Add source `NodeId` to request and response header
+  [#1308](https://github.com/eclipse-iceoryx/iceoryx2/issues/1308)
+* Add support for platforms that do not support 64-bit atomics
+  [#1324](https://github.com/eclipse-iceoryx/iceoryx2/issues/1324)
 
 ### Bugfixes
 
diff --git a/iceoryx2-pal/concurrency-sync/src/atomic.rs b/iceoryx2-pal/concurrency-sync/src/atomic.rs
index d34260178..f208540d7 100644
--- a/iceoryx2-pal/concurrency-sync/src/atomic.rs
+++ b/iceoryx2-pal/concurrency-sync/src/atomic.rs
@@ -104,18 +104,32 @@ pub type AtomicI32 = core::sync::atomic::AtomicI32;
 pub type AtomicI32 = loom::sync::atomic::AtomicI32;
 
 /// Behaves like [`core::sync::atomic::AtomicI64`]
-#[cfg(not(all(test, loom, feature = "std")))]
+#[cfg(all(not(all(test, loom, feature = "std")), target_has_atomic = "64"))]
 #[allow(clippy::disallowed_types)]
 pub type AtomicI64 = core::sync::atomic::AtomicI64;
 
+#[cfg(all(not(all(test, loom, feature = "std")), not(target_has_atomic = "64")))]
+#[deprecated(
+    since = "0.0.1",
+    note = "This platform does not support native atomic 64-bit operations! iceoryx2 uses a 64-bit atomic based on spinlocks that cannot guarantee lock-free operations. A crash in one process may cause a deadlock in another process."
+)]
+pub type AtomicI64 = Atomic<i64>;
+
 #[cfg(all(test, loom, feature = "std"))]
 pub type AtomicI64 = loom::sync::atomic::AtomicI64;
 
 /// Behaves like [`core::sync::atomic::AtomicU64`]
-#[cfg(not(all(test, loom, feature = "std")))]
+#[cfg(all(not(all(test, loom, feature = "std")), target_has_atomic = "64"))]
 #[allow(clippy::disallowed_types)]
 pub type AtomicU64 = core::sync::atomic::AtomicU64;
 
+#[cfg(all(not(all(test, loom, feature = "std")), not(target_has_atomic = "64")))]
+#[deprecated(
+    since = "0.0.1",
+    note = "This platform does not support native atomic 64-bit operations! iceoryx2 uses a 64-bit atomic based on spinlocks that cannot guarantee lock-free operations. A crash in one process may cause a deadlock in another process."
+)]
+pub type AtomicU64 = Atomic<u64>;
+
 #[cfg(all(test, loom, feature = "std"))]
 pub type AtomicU64 = loom::sync::atomic::AtomicU64;