A different view of volatile

[Henry Spencer]

> More than that, volatile is ill-defined *always*: on a machine
> with only halfword load and stores, a fullword `a = 0' is not atomic.
> 
> Remember, though, that `ill-defined' does not mean `useless'...

Remember also that "volatile" does not mean "atomic"!
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