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Re: On Interruptions



I'm actually getting the counter value by means of a function. In any
case, never mind. I fixed the problem already.

thanks for the answers anyways,

Cristiano.

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Cristiano Ligieri Pereira - http://www.ics.uci.edu/~cpereira

On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Jonathan Larmour wrote:

> Cristiano Ligieri Pereira wrote:
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I have a interruption which increments a counter in a periodic basis. The
> > variable is also read by any of the threads to find out the counter value
> > at any given time.
> > 
> > It turns out that the counter is being increased but when I read its value
> > from any of the threads I get a zero as the current value. The counter is
> > defined as a "volatile".  Is there any other precaution that I should take
> > in order to get the right value?
> 
> Declared as volatile in declaration as well as definition? Small code
> sample possibly?
> 
> Jifl
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