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  69. <h3 class="section">4.10 Qualifiers</h3>
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  71. <li> <cite>What constitutes an access to an object that has volatile-qualified
  72. type (C90 6.5.3, C99 and C11 6.7.3).</cite>
  73. <p>Such an object is normally accessed by pointers and used for accessing
  74. hardware. In most expressions, it is intuitively obvious what is a read
  75. and what is a write. For example
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  77. <div class="smallexample">
  78. <pre class="smallexample">volatile int *dst = <var>somevalue</var>;
  79. volatile int *src = <var>someothervalue</var>;
  80. *dst = *src;
  81. </pre></div>
  82. <p>will cause a read of the volatile object pointed to by <var>src</var> and store the
  83. value into the volatile object pointed to by <var>dst</var>. There is no
  84. guarantee that these reads and writes are atomic, especially for objects
  85. larger than <code>int</code>.
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  87. <p>However, if the volatile storage is not being modified, and the value of
  88. the volatile storage is not used, then the situation is less obvious.
  89. For example
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  92. <pre class="smallexample">volatile int *src = <var>somevalue</var>;
  93. *src;
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  95. <p>According to the C standard, such an expression is an rvalue whose type
  96. is the unqualified version of its original type, i.e. <code>int</code>. Whether
  97. GCC interprets this as a read of the volatile object being pointed to or
  98. only as a request to evaluate the expression for its side-effects depends
  99. on this type.
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  101. <p>If it is a scalar type, or on most targets an aggregate type whose only
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