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Interview Question for Software Engineer at Freescale Semiconductor:
What does 'volatile' keyword mean?
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A variable declared with the volatile keyword usually has special properties related to optimization and/or threading. Generally speaking, the volatile keyword is intended to prevent the (pseudo)compiler from applying any optimizations on the code that assume values of variables cannot change "on their own."