On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 20:05:34 -0800, Don Quixote de la Mancha said:

>It is a common misconception that the "volatile" keyword is necessary
>or even helpful to code the implements locks and atomic operations.

Indeed.  A nice discussion of this is here:
<http://mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2009-07-03-type-specifiers-in-c-part-2.html>
<http://mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2009-07-10-type-specifiers-in-c-part-3.html>

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