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Re:GCC 5.2 released by mrpippy on Thursday July 16, 2015 @11:33AM (#9897825)
Those pointers always need to be defined as volatile anyway
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Re:GCC 5.2 released by zyngaro on Thursday July 16, 2015 @12:00PM (#9898009)
The point of using volatile is to make sure not to put the variable in a register or use a cached value; it hits the memory.
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