Volatile
Explore how the volatile keyword enforces memory fencing in C# to prevent reordering and caching optimizations on marked fields. Understand acquire and release semantics with examples, ensuring safer multithreaded code by controlling read and write operations. This lesson clarifies volatile's role in synchronization and memory consistency.
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Volatile
Informally, the volatile keyword forbids any reordering and caching optimizations to be applied on a field marked volatile. More formally, when a volatile field is read an acquire-fence is generated and when it is written to a release-fence is generated.
Let's see an example to clarify these concepts. Consider ...