Volatile (computer programming)
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volatile-computer-programming-218-1587137
title:
Volatile (computer programming)
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In computer programming, a value is said to be volatile if it can be read or modified asynchronously by something other than the current thread of execution. The value of a volatile variable may spontaneously change for reasons such as:
sharing values with other threads of execution; sharing values with asynchronous signal handlers;
accessing hardware devices via memory-mapped I/O.
Support for these use cases varies considerably among the several programming language that have the volatile keywo
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A keyword used in some programming languages to tag variables
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volatile_(computer_programming)
date created:
2004-08-30T19:18:05Z
date modified:
2024-09-13T04:45:13Z
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