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From: ray@micomvax.UUCP (Ray Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: volatile (in comp.lang.c)
Message-ID: <1111@micomvax.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jun 88 22:31:04 GMT
References: <20345@pyramid.pyramid.com> <833@mcdsun.UUCP> <1988May23.003847.1114@utzoo.uucp> <1078@micomvax.UUCP> <4922@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: ray@micomvax.UUCP (Ray Dunn)
Organization: Philips Electronics Ltd. (TDS - Montreal) St. Laurent QC, Canada
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In article <4922@ihlpf.ATT.COM> nevin1@ihlpf.UUCP (00704a-Liber,N.J.) writes:
 >...  My question is:  is there *any* use for 'volatile'
 >which does not require 'atomicity' at some level? ...

Yes, any use created by the simple, straight forward requirements of memory
mapped I/O.
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