Does the keyword volatile work?

[Fergus Henderson]

On 12-May-2003, Stephen P. Smith <ischis2@cox.net> wrote:
> In the code fragment below which was produced with a 3.3 version of the gcc 
> compiler,
> why isn't the variable p1 assigned to mailboxHandle immediately?  I believe 
> that the
> keyword volatile should cause that to happen.

Firstly, I would suggest using `*(volatile DWORD *)&p1'
rather than `(volatile DWORD)p1'.

Secondly, if you want to be sure that the value will be assigned to
the target variable immediately, you need to declare the target
variable as volatile.

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