volatile in struct

[Leon Pollak]

On Wednesday 18 February 2004 16:20, Sergei Organov wrote:
> Juergen Zeller <juergen.zeller at argovision.de> writes:
> [...]
>
> > I think I know the meaning of volatile and this is what you discussed.
>
> Really? There just been lengthy discussion in 'comp.programming.threads'
> and 'comp.lang.c++.moderated' newsgroups about what volatile actually means
> in C/C++ between rather experienced programmers. I had no intention to
> repeat all that here.
My 2c...:-)
I did not read the mentioned news groups discussions but according to the 
names I should assume that the discussion was around the possible 
multi-tasking/threading problems and C++ aspects.
About the volatile itself, I think, this is rather simple to understand if one 
can look at the assembler code generated by compilers. 
My analysis showed, that in most cases the compiler adds the variable address 
recalculation (if needed) and rereading/writing from/to the recalculated 
address.
I do not mention here all possible problems which can arise in the case of 
multitasking environment, when another task may intervene in the set of 
assembler commands from above...

BR
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Leon M.Pollak
leonp at plris dot com