The volatile is a keyword defined in the java programming language.

The volatile keyword

     

The volatile is a keyword defined in the java programming language. Keywords are basically reserved words which have specific meaning relevant to a compiler. The volatile keyword is mostly used to indicate that a member variable of a class may get modified asynchronously by more than one thread.

Syntex:  Here is the syntax that shows how to use the keyword volatile.

public class Myclass { volatile int sharableValue; }

Note: Here are some points that must be considered while declaring and defining a variable as volatile.

• This thing is noticable that the volatile keyword is not implemented in many Java Virtual Machines.
• The volatile keyword from t he side of compiler tries to guarantee that all the threads should see the same value of a specified variable.
  

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