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bjskishore123
bjskishore123

Reputation: 6342

Removing volatile nature using const_cast

I heard that volatile nature of a variable can be removed using const_cast operator.

In which scenarios we need to remove volatile nature of a variable ? are there any good use cases ? Is it dangerours operation, because we declared it as volatile thinking that it would be modified by external factors and removing volatile nature could stop modifications to it. Specially when volatile pointers are registers etc.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2464

Answers (1)

Johannes Schaub - litb
Johannes Schaub - litb

Reputation: 507005

The moment you do that, behavior is undefined. Note that removing volatile from an expression that really refers to a non-volatile variable and removing volatile from an expression that refers to a volatile variable are different. The latter thing is what you asked about, and it causes undefined behavior. The Standard laws

If an attempt is made to refer to an object defined with a volatile-qualified type through the use of an lvalue with a non-volatile-qualified type, the program behaviour is undefined.

Upvotes: 4

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