# `volatile`
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Provides the wrapper type `Volatile`, which wraps a reference to any copy-able type and allows for volatile memory access to wrapped value. Volatile memory accesses are never optimized away by the compiler, and are useful in many low-level systems programming and concurrent contexts.
The wrapper types *do not* enforce any atomicity guarantees; to also get atomicity, consider looking at the `Atomic` wrapper types found in `libcore` or `libstd`.
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