Suppose you have a function that make several read access to a shared variable whose access is atomic. All in running in the same process. Imagine them as threads of a process or as a sw running on bare metal platform with no MMU.
As a requirement you must ensure that the value of that read is consistent for all the length of the function so the code must not re-read the memory location and have to put in a local variable or on a register. How can we ensure that this behaviour is respected?
As an example...
shared is the only shared variable
extern uint32_t a, b, shared;
void useless_function()
{
__ASM volatile ("":::"memory");
uint32_t value = shared;
a = value *2;
b = value << 3;
}
Can value be optimized out by direct readings of shared variable in some contexts? If yes, how can I be sure this cannot happen?