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compiler barrier

Something that stops the compiler from moving memory accesses across it, without adding any instruction for the processor.

A compiler barrier (asm volatile("" ::: "memory"), std::atomic_signal_fence) prevents the compiler from reordering, merging or caching memory accesses across it but emits no instruction, so it does not constrain hardware reordering.

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