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[Walter Bright]

Sean Kelly wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Sean Kelly wrote:
>>> I suppose the obvious question here is: what if I want to create a mutex
>>> in D?
>>
>> Why do you need volatile for that?
> 
> To restrict compiler optimizations performed on the code.

The optimizer won't move global or pointer references across a function 
call boundary.