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- <h3 class="section">7.1 When is a Volatile C++ Object Accessed?</h3>
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- <p>The C++ standard differs from the C standard in its treatment of
- volatile objects. It fails to specify what constitutes a volatile
- access, except to say that C++ should behave in a similar manner to C
- with respect to volatiles, where possible. However, the different
- lvalueness of expressions between C and C++ complicate the behavior.
- G++ behaves the same as GCC for volatile access, See <a href="C-Extensions.html#C-Extensions">Volatiles</a>, for a description of GCC’s behavior.
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- <p>The C and C++ language specifications differ when an object is
- accessed in a void context:
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- <pre class="smallexample">volatile int *src = <var>somevalue</var>;
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- <p>The C++ standard specifies that such expressions do not undergo lvalue
- to rvalue conversion, and that the type of the dereferenced object may
- be incomplete. The C++ standard does not specify explicitly that it
- is lvalue to rvalue conversion that is responsible for causing an
- access. There is reason to believe that it is, because otherwise
- certain simple expressions become undefined. However, because it
- would surprise most programmers, G++ treats dereferencing a pointer to
- volatile object of complete type as GCC would do for an equivalent
- type in C. When the object has incomplete type, G++ issues a
- warning; if you wish to force an error, you must force a conversion to
- rvalue with, for instance, a static cast.
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- <p>When using a reference to volatile, G++ does not treat equivalent
- expressions as accesses to volatiles, but instead issues a warning that
- no volatile is accessed. The rationale for this is that otherwise it
- becomes difficult to determine where volatile access occur, and not
- possible to ignore the return value from functions returning volatile
- references. Again, if you wish to force a read, cast the reference to
- an rvalue.
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- <p>G++ implements the same behavior as GCC does when assigning to a
- volatile object—there is no reread of the assigned-to object, the
- assigned rvalue is reused. Note that in C++ assignment expressions
- are lvalues, and if used as an lvalue, the volatile object is
- referred to. For instance, <var>vref</var> refers to <var>vobj</var>, as
- expected, in the following example:
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