Re: [OT] volatile keyword

[Alan Cox]

On Iau, 2005-08-25 at 15:26 -0600, Christopher Friesen wrote:
> > do
> >     expires = timr->it_timer.expires;
> > while ((volatile long) (timr->it_timer.expires) != expires);
> > 
> > Seems it's casting the value, not the pointer.
> 
> Someone else will have to give the definitive answer, but it looks 
> suspicious to me...

It really ought to be using rmb() in this case not volatile casting

Alan

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