Björn Persson wrote:

> And why would you use pragma Volatile on a variable stored in the
> memory, anyway? As Ludovic described it, it would only be useful on
> variables mapped to special hardware devices. I don't think you would
> want to store a counter there.

Spin-locks for multiprocessor systems; variables used for
lock-free task synchronization; other variables directly shared
between tasks without being enclosed in protected objects (but
protected by some other synchronization logic, one would hope).

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