> 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 ignore the fact
>that it's volatile at that point.
The `volatile' is there so that loops like
oldtime = jiffies;
while ((jiffies - oldtime) < HZ)
;
work. It serves no useful purpose when assigning to the variable, and casting
it away prevents other optimisations from being inhibited.
p.
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