volatile (in comp.lang.c)

[Ray Dunn]

In article <4922 at ihlpf.ATT.COM> nevin1 at ihlpf.UUCP (00704a-Liber,N.J.) writes:
 >...  My question is:  is there *any* use for 'volatile'
 >which does not require 'atomicity' at some level? ...

Yes, any use created by the simple, straight forward requirements of memory
mapped I/O.
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