volatile in struct

[Angelo Fraietta]

Sergei Organov wrote:

>2. Using volatile is almost never a good idea. If you use RTOS primitives for
>   mutual exclusion correctly, you don't need volatile for your protected
>   data.
>  
>
I would have to dissagree with that. If I had a loop eg

while (x)
    {
       do something
    }

And x is decremented in another thread, the compiler can optimise x so 
it will never appear changed without volatile

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