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SubjectRe: why are some atomic_t's not volatile, while most are?
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. :)

Chris
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