Pega Interview Question for Applications Developers


Country: India
Interview Type: In-Person




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The volatile keyword is a type qualifier used to declare that an object can be modified in the program by something such as the operating system, the hardware, or a concurrently executing thread.

This means every time the variable is requested inside the program, each time the value is read from the source memory location(harddrive,devices.etc). normal variables are stored in virtual memory of the processor. They are synced with source memory location only twice. Once during first read and second termination write.
This is useful when the varialbe is used as a control condition in multthreaded or RT applications applications.

- SantiagoYemmiganur June 20, 2012 | Flag Reply
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Best example for theses stuff is the Embedded System. you might have a variable called temperature...but at the moment you try to read it, it might been modified by an external system. Making volatile means that this varaible needs to be re-read everytime.

- Pavan Dittakavi March 13, 2013 | Flag
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variables value is most opften changed by threads therefore no optimization is done such a var is called volatile var

- don June 22, 2012 | Flag Reply


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