On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 10:56 AM, John Harrison
<harr...@tigermail.auburn.edu> wrote:
> I understand that most people do not understand the volatile keyword and it 
> is very commonly misused, but it does serve a very important purpose in 
> embedded and low level programming. I could always try to write anything that 
> requires MMIO or signals in C and just call it from rust, but that feels 
> unsatisfactory.

An easy stopgap might be to add unsafe primitives for volatile_load
and volatile_store that map to LLVM load volatile/store volatile
instructions.

-Joe
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