On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Any other use of "volatile" is almost certainly a bug, or just useless. Side note: it's also totally possible that a volatiles _hides_ a bug, ie removing the volatile ends up having bad effects, but that's because the software itself isn't actually following the rules (or, more commonly, the rules are broken, and somebody added "volatile" to hide the problem). That's not just a theoretical notion, btw. We had _tons_ of these kinds of "volatile"s in the original old networking code. They were _all_ wrong. Every single one. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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