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[Duncan Sands]

Hi Chris,

>> I'm trying to imagine situations in which a volatile mem* call is useful, but I
>> didn't come up with anything very convincing yet.  Can you please explain what
>> you have in mind.
>
> volatile struct foo X, Y;
>
> X = Y;
>
> Should lower to a 'volatile memcpy'.

shouldn't it load to a series of field by field volatile copies?

Ciao,

Duncan.