Re: MSDN volatile sample
"George" wrote:
You are correct. Now I am confused about the MSDN sample. What
is it
purpose? Telling us we have to put volatile keyword to thread
sharing data to
make program function well as designed? In my past experience, I
have never
used volatile to all shared data between threads.
It depends on how you access your shared data. In this particular
sample volatile variable is accessed from different threads.
Without `volatile' modifier compiler may optimize away reads of
this variable. So, the code in a thread may miss variable changes.
To prevent optimizations, you specify a variable as volatile.
Norbert already answered this question.
It seems that volatile will make wrong optimization to prevent
thread1 from
reading the most recent correct value set by thread2?
On the contrary, declaring `Sentinel' variable as volatile will
prevent optimizations and force a compiler to generate the code
that reads `Sentinel' value everty time it's accessed.
Alex
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