Re: [avr-gcc-list] volatile...

[Paulo Marques]

Galen Seitz wrote:
> One more suggestion...
>
> If you are using global volatiles shared between an interrupt and 
> mainline code, interrupt handler performance may be improved by moving 
> the volatile into a temporary variable.

Yes, but this doesn't save you the trouble of disabling interrupts 
around the access to the variable in the main program, at which point 
you'll probably want to write a special function to access it (so that 
you don't sprinkle your code with interrupt disable / enable) at which 
point you might as well stuff a volatile in there, and avoid changing 
the interrupt code logic.

You can defend the use of volatile for 8 bit vars because all accesses 
are atomic anyway, but when we reach 16 bits (or 32, ...) there really 
isn't much point in _declaring_ the variable volatile at all, IMHO.

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