Re: why are some atomic_t's not volatile, while most are?

From: Chris Friesen
Date: Wed Aug 08 2007 - 00:51:02 EST


Chris Snook wrote:

This is not a problem, since indirect references will cause the CPU to fetch the data from memory/cache anyway.

Isn't Zan's sample code (that shows the problem) already using indirect references?

Chris
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