In computer programming, a variable or object declared with the volatile keyword may be modified externally from the declaring object. For example, a variable that might be concurrently modified by multiple threads (without locks or a similar form of mutual exclusion) should be declared volatile. Variables declared to be volatile will not be optimized by the compiler because their value can change at any time.
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