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Re: Question on volatile functions and GCC
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.