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Re: volatile shared memory

From: Marc Glisse <marc dot glisse at inria dot fr>
To: NightStrike <nightstrike at gmail dot com>
Cc: gcc-help <gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 08:37:02 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Re: volatile shared memory
References: <CAF1jjLt+APMAdNBuSDwbTXtgwbDWrJrrq-FarXmX0Vcxvve3hg@mail.gmail.com>
Reply-to: gcc-help <gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org>

On Thu, 15 Mar 2012, NightStrike wrote:

For simple things like this, and much more complicated things beyond
it, is there a way to cast something to "volatile" for one particular
usage?

Ian's answer is the right one. For this particular subquestion, yes, it is possible, just do a cast at the pointer level and access the object through that int volatile*.

--
Marc Glisse

References:
- volatile shared memory
  - From: NightStrike

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