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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
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On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 08:12:48PM -0700, hpanvin@gmail.com wrote:
> I mean the volatile in "asm volatile".

That volatile has nothing to do with memory. It just means "don't move
much". It's actually quite vague, because the rest of the function
can still move around.

-Andi