[Openal-devel] Some threading bits

[Chris Robinson]

On Thursday 10 July 2008 11:13:12 am Matias D'Ambrosio wrote:
>  I'm attaching a ridiculously short patch which I'm not even sure is
> necessary. The variable killNow is an int (used as a boolean) in alsa.c ,
> apparently to stop alsa processing while killing the thread. Shouldn't it
> be a volatile?

Is it legal to mark a single struct member as volatile, and not the whole 
struct itself? You're right that it should be volatile because of the 
threaded access, but I hope I don't have to make the whole struct volatile to 
do it..