RE: (*(unsigned long *)&jiffies)++;

From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Thu Jan 06 2000 - 17:53:36 EST


On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, David Schwartz wrote:

> Exactly. What's the point of declaring it as volatile if you're
>later going to cast the volatile away? The compiler has the right to

Because all readers needs the variable declared as volatile. Only the
do_timer (writer) doesn't really need that.

Andrea

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