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> In message <200010170851.e9H8ps700438@mass.osd.bsdi.com>, Mike Smith $B$5$s$$$o$/(B
> :
> >
> >One thing I had wondered; does the ACPICA code correctly re-evaluate DATA 
> >every time, or does it cache the result?  (And is there a useful set of 
> >debugging flags I can turn on to watch the evaluation of this code in 
> >order to find out what it's really doing?)
> >
> I  noticed that they use too few 'volatile' keyword.They only use it 
> in assembler instruction.I  think REGION memory access always need it.

The REGION stuff still uses the external access functions in 
OsdHardware.c though, right?  Is it going to optimise across calls to 
these functions?

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