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

Chris Snook wrote:

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

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


Chris
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