What is the purpose of the volatile keyword?

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What is the purpose of the volatile keyword?

purpose of this keyword is that if you have a few threads that are running at the same time that can modify a value of a variable you can protect it by placing that value to be volatile. So the value cannot be changed simultaniosly by 2 running threads.
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