In the Linux Kernel instead of marking variables/types as volatile you mark _accesses_ as volatile. there's a pair of macros READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE that temporari

In the Linux Kernel instead of marking variables/types as volatile you mark _accesses_ as volatile. there's a pair of macros READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE that temporarily cast the pointer for you. I think this is a better way to use volatile. Even then I think it's rarely useful outside of x86-specific code (where the CPU gives you quite a lot of memory ordering guarantees). Would be interesting to check how often it gets used elsewhere.