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Re: how to cast away 'volatile'?

IIRC, volatile is used when the memory is outside of the program's
control (eg written to by external hardware).

Noel

On 3/13/07, Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> wrote: 
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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