Re: volatile

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On Thu, 8 May 2003, Mohanasundaram C wrote:

> 	Can anyone please explain me what is the meaning of the keyword
> "volatile" in the kernel code

It is a hint to compiler not to do some optimizations with this variable,
because it might change from outside of the current code.

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