Does the keyword volatile work?

[Fergus Henderson]

On 12-May-2003, Stephen P. Smith <ischis2@cox.net> wrote:
> Ok, I did what I thought you told me to do, and it didn't work. 
> assignThisNow isn't getting set right away.
> 
> 258:../../code/ipc/ipck.cpp **** DWORD CDECL someFunction( DWORD, DWORD 
> p1, DWORD, DWORD, DWORD, DWORD)
> 259:../../code/ipc/ipck.cpp **** {
> 433                  .LM1:
> 434 0000 55               pushl    %ebp
> 435 0001 89E5             movl    %esp, %ebp
> 436 0003 56               pushl    %esi
> 437 0004 53               pushl    %ebx
> 260:../../code/ipc/ipck.cpp ****   volatile DWORD assignThisNow = 
> *(volatile DWORD *)&p1;
> 261:../../code/ipc/ipck.cpp ****   NumericNameTYP threadName = 
> (NumericNameTYP) assignThisNow;
> 262:../../code/ipc/ipck.cpp ****   DWORD periodIndex = 0;
> 439                  .LM2:
> 440                  .LBB2:
> 441 0005 31F6             xorl    %esi, %esi

Declaring things as volatile doesn't guarantee that the compiler won't
put some other, non-volatile computation at the start of the function.

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