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Re: On Interruptions


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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