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On 5 March 2013 09:27, David Paterson wrote:
In addition to Jonathan's answer on the use of "volatile", it's worth adding that it's not only used for memory mapped hardware. There are many other uses, such as inter-thread communication, or indeed the example you show below.
Only in broken code.
volatile is not for multithreading, you need proper synchronization for interthread communication.
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