Illustrating usage of the volatile keyword in C#

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I’ve achieved a working example!

The main idea received from wiki, but with some changes for C#. The wiki article demonstrates this for static field of C++, it is looks like C# always carefully compile requests to static fields… and i make example with non static one:

If you run this example in Release mode and without debugger (i.e. using Ctrl+F5) then the line while (test.foo != 255) will be optimized to ‘while(true)’ and this program never returns.
But after adding volatile keyword, you always get ‘OK’.

class Test
{
    /*volatile*/ int foo;

    static void Main()
    {
        var test = new Test();

        new Thread(delegate() { Thread.Sleep(500); test.foo = 255; }).Start();

        while (test.foo != 255) ;
        Console.WriteLine("OK");
    }
}

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