Even if compilers are better now, if possible it is better to wrap any IO memory access into ioread/iowrite inline (no cost) functions.
This can then be implemented in a way known to be safe for the compiler used. And that can be changed easily in case the architecture or the compiler changes ( yeah abstraction ! )
I have, in various projects over the years, resorted to inline Asm when I couldn't coerce the compiler to do exactly what I wanted; including very rare compiler bugs.
Even if compilers are better now, if possible it is better to wrap any IO memory access into ioread/iowrite inline (no cost) functions. This can then be implemented in a way known to be safe for the compiler used. And that can be changed easily in case the architecture or the compiler changes ( yeah abstraction ! )
As linux does for example: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.15/driver-api/device-io.h...
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