Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:49:31 -0600 | From | "Chris Friesen" <> | Subject | Re: why are some atomic_t's not volatile, while most are? |
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Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Aug 7 2007 15:38, Chris Friesen wrote:
>>That volatile is there precisely to force the compiler to dereference it every >>single time.
> Actually, the dereference will be done once (or more often if registers > are short or the compiler does not feel like keeping it around), > and the read from memory will be done on every iteration ;-)
My bad. You are, of course, correct. :)
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