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Subject: Re: [Xenomai-core] rtdm timer questions
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To: Steven Seeger <steven.seeger@domain.hid>
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Steven Seeger wrote:
> I think I see what my problem is with the driver. The flag that is
> holding off the extra starts is stupidly not set to volatile. Oops. I'll
> report back with results later.

Be careful with volatile variables: Unless they refer to hardware-backed
data (MMIO), you may just happen to write racy lock-less code - or the
volatile is useless anyway.

Jan

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