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- <h3 class="section">4.10 Qualifiers</h3>
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- <li> <cite>What constitutes an access to an object that has volatile-qualified
- type (C90 6.5.3, C99 and C11 6.7.3).</cite>
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- <p>Such an object is normally accessed by pointers and used for accessing
- hardware. In most expressions, it is intuitively obvious what is a read
- and what is a write. For example
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- <pre class="smallexample">volatile int *dst = <var>somevalue</var>;
- volatile int *src = <var>someothervalue</var>;
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- <p>will cause a read of the volatile object pointed to by <var>src</var> and store the
- value into the volatile object pointed to by <var>dst</var>. There is no
- guarantee that these reads and writes are atomic, especially for objects
- larger than <code>int</code>.
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- <p>However, if the volatile storage is not being modified, and the value of
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