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Volatile variable
In computer programming, a variable or object declared with the volatile keyword may be modified externally from the declaring object. For example, a variable modified by multiple threads should be declared volatile.
Variables and objects declared as volatile will not be optimized by the compiler because their value can change at any time.
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