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Re:Volatile: C Keyword Myths Dispelled by dfox on Thursday March 12, 2009 @04:15PM (#513995)
And additionally, cases when volatile is really necessary around setjmp()/longjmp() are pretty rare.
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Re:Volatile: C Keyword Myths Dispelled by shantanugoel on Friday March 13, 2009 @12:10AM (#514489)
True..I try to avoid volatiles as much as I can. And as someone else pointed out on the blog in the commens, many implementations even get the volatiles wrong giving rise to a lot of bugs, so even if you were utmost careful about it, it can still cause issues.
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