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    SubjectRe: [patch] spinlocks: remove 'volatile'
    On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 11:54:10PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
    > That's all theoretical though. Today, gcc's volatile does
    > not follow the C standard on modern hardware. Bummer.
    > It'd be low-performance anyway though.

    But gcc would follow the standard if it emitted a 'lock'
    insn on every volatile reference. It should at least
    have an option to do that.

    Joe
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