Subj : Re: 'volatile' Rules
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Schwartz
Date : Tue Jun 07 2005 06:20 pm


"David Hopwood" <david.nospam.hopwood@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message 
news:pOppe.234235$Cq2.166457@fe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk...

> Uenal Mutlu wrote:

>> Maybe someone can list when [volatile] is ever useful, if any.

> Accessing memory-mapped hardware registers.

    Or, more generally, in any platform-specific situation where the 
platform's documentation specifies that volatile has some particular 
guaranteed semantics on that platform.

    DS

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