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Robert Eachus <rieachus@comcast.net> writes:

> But you really need ancient (in Internet years) hardware for Volatile
> to have any effect at all.

I think Randy recently pointed out that Volatile should ideally apply
only to the memory-mapped i/o case; for the external effects.