Why is the volatile qualifier used through out std::atomic?
- by Caspin
From what I've read from Herb Sutter and others you would think that volatile and concurrent programming were completely orthogonal concepts, at least as far as C/C++ are concerned.
However, in GCC c++0x extension all of std::atomic's member functions have the volatile qualifier. The same is true in Anthony Williams's implementation of std::atomic.
So what's deal, do my atomic<> variables need be volatile or not?