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From: Jerry Jiang <wjiang@resilience.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make atomic_t volatile on all architectures
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 17:18:32 +0800
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On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:10:16 +0200
Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> wrote:

> >=20
> > Why the *volatile-accesses-in-code* is acceptable, does C standard =
make it
> > clear?
>=20
> http://lwn.net/Articles/233482/

I have read this article before, but What Linus said only focusing on
the conclusion-- The semantics of it are so unclear as
to be totally useless.

and still not to said "Why the *volatile-accesses-in-code* is
acceptable"

-- Jerry


> --=20
> Fun things to slip into your budget
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>=20
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