Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: A different view of volatile
Message-ID: <1988May6.170417.761@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <178@wyse.wyse.com>, <11369@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6 May 88 17:04:17 GMT

> More than that, volatile is ill-defined *always*: on a machine
> with only halfword load and stores, a fullword `a = 0' is not atomic.
> 
> Remember, though, that `ill-defined' does not mean `useless'...

Remember also that "volatile" does not mean "atomic"!
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