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Re: how to cast away 'volatile'?

From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
To: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
Cc: "Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming at starnetworks dot us>, gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:09:14 +0000
Subject: Re: how to cast away 'volatile'?
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Ian Lance Taylor writes:
 > 
 > All objects shared between threads need to protected by a mutex, or by
 > some other type of memory barrier.

It's an interesting contention -- that in GNU/Linux userspace there
are essentially no legitimate uses for volatile.  Hmmmm...

Andrew.

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