Remove volatile qualifiers, and regarding to memory barriers, the Novell developer kit documentation "NDK: Libraries for C (LibC), Volume 2; Section I, General C Services; Atomic Functions", says: "An atomic function is guaranteed to complete its memory operation before any other processor or bus agent can access the same memory." So I presume that the atomic functions issues memory barriers. Index: apr/atomic/netware/apr_atomic.c =================================================================== --- apr.orig/atomic/netware/apr_atomic.c +++ apr/atomic/netware/apr_atomic.c @@ -24,47 +24,47 @@ APR_DECLARE(apr_status_t) apr_atomic_ini return APR_SUCCESS; } -APR_DECLARE(apr_uint32_t) apr_atomic_add32(volatile apr_uint32_t *mem, apr_uint32_t val) +APR_DECLARE(apr_uint32_t) apr_atomic_add32(apr_uint32_t *mem, apr_uint32_t val) { return atomic_xchgadd((unsigned long *)mem,(unsigned long)val); } -APR_DECLARE(void) apr_atomic_sub32(volatile apr_uint32_t *mem, apr_uint32_t val) +APR_DECLARE(void) apr_atomic_sub32(apr_uint32_t *mem, apr_uint32_t val) { atomic_sub((unsigned long *)mem,(unsigned long)val); } -APR_DECLARE(apr_uint32_t) apr_atomic_inc32(volatile apr_uint32_t *mem) +APR_DECLARE(apr_uint32_t) apr_atomic_inc32(apr_uint32_t *mem) { return atomic_xchgadd((unsigned long *)mem, 1); } -APR_DECLARE(void) apr_atomic_set32(volatile apr_uint32_t *mem, apr_uint32_t val) +APR_DECLARE(void) apr_atomic_set32(apr_uint32_t *mem, apr_uint32_t val) { *mem = val; } -APR_DECLARE(apr_uint32_t) apr_atomic_read32(volatile apr_uint32_t *mem) +APR_DECLARE(apr_uint32_t) apr_atomic_read32(apr_uint32_t *mem) { return *mem; } -APR_DECLARE(apr_uint32_t) apr_atomic_cas32(volatile apr_uint32_t *mem, apr_uint32_t with,apr_uint32_t cmp) +APR_DECLARE(apr_uint32_t) apr_atomic_cas32(apr_uint32_t *mem, apr_uint32_t with,apr_uint32_t cmp) { return atomic_cmpxchg((unsigned long *)mem,(unsigned long)cmp,(unsigned long)with); } -APR_DECLARE(apr_uint32_t) apr_atomic_xchg32(volatile apr_uint32_t *mem, apr_uint32_t val) +APR_DECLARE(apr_uint32_t) apr_atomic_xchg32(apr_uint32_t *mem, apr_uint32_t val) { return atomic_xchg((unsigned long *)mem,(unsigned long)val); } -APR_DECLARE(int) apr_atomic_dec32(volatile apr_uint32_t *mem) +APR_DECLARE(int) apr_atomic_dec32(apr_uint32_t *mem) { return (atomic_xchgadd((unsigned long *)mem, 0xFFFFFFFF) - 1); } -APR_DECLARE(void *) apr_atomic_casptr(volatile void **mem, void *with, const void *cmp) +APR_DECLARE(void *) apr_atomic_casptr(void **mem, void *with, void *cmp) { return (void*)atomic_cmpxchg((unsigned long *)mem,(unsigned long)cmp,(unsigned long)with); }