Robert P. J. Day wrote:
example, i was just poking around the source for the various
"atomic.h" files and noticed a couple possible cleanups:
1) make sure *everyone* uses "volatile" in the typedef struct (which
i actually submitted recently)
I don't see why. There is nothing in atomic (eg. atomic_read) that says
there must be a compiler barrier around the operation.
Have you checked that the architecture implementation actually needs the
volatile where you've added it?
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