Re: [OT] volatile keyword

[Christopher Friesen]

Vadim Lobanov wrote:

> I figured it was something along these lines. In that case, is the
> following code (from kernel/posix-timers.c) really doing the right
> thing?
>
> do
>     expires = timr->it_timer.expires;
> while ((volatile long) (timr->it_timer.expires) != expires);
>
> Seems it's casting the value, not the pointer.

Someone else will have to give the definitive answer, but it looks 
suspicious to me...

Chris
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