Re: why are some atomic_t's not volatile, while most are?

Jan Engelhardt
2007-08-07T22:13:28Z

On Aug 7 2007 15:38, Chris Friesen wrote:
> Even now, powerpc (as an example) defines atomic_t as:
>
> typedef struct { volatile int counter; } atomic_t
>
>
> That volatile is there precisely to force the compiler to dereference it every
> single time.

Actually, the dereference will be done once (or more often if registers
are short or the compiler does not feel like keeping it around),
and the read from memory will be done on every iteration ;-)

Jan
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