MB> Declare the variable with the ANSI C standard "volatile" keyword.
 MB>  

 PR> Yes, I've tried that. Provlem is the volatile int variable; is in 1 
 PR> class, and for some reason when I'm using an (global) 
 PR> instance of that class's members which I have declared 
 PR> volatile (in the original declaration... *.h file) 
 PR> it's still optimizing it ala register. This is really

Compiler bug;  which are you using?

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