> First, if x and done are ordinary variables, then thread 2's loop may never stop. A common compiler optimization is to load a variable into a register at its first use and then reuse that register for future accesses to the variable, for as long as possible. If thread 2 copies done into a register before thread 1 executes, it may keep using that register for the entire loop, never noticing that thread 1 later modifies done.
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