On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
> it's the other way around, it's needed and gcc trapped a kernel bug.
No it's not.
> If the contents of memory not declared volatile changes under GCC (like
> it can happen right now for xtime since it's declared non volatile), gcc
> has the full rights to crash the kernel at runtime.
Absolutely not.
If we care abotu the thing always having the same value, we HAVE to use a
lock. "volatile" is not the answer.
Show me a place where we care.
Linus
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