Missing a way to work around CS0677 #45367
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If you are trying to declare a long (as the sample text does), using the volatile qualifier gets rejected because the (eventual) hardware platform may not support atomic access to long. But using nint allows platforms that do support such access the ability to work around this. By definition the compiler knows that it can atomically access things of size nint.
Which means that a 'potential fix' for CS0677 might be to change the type from 'long' to nint. Obviously not a solution for all situations, but it sure helped me, and was more technically correct for my situation anyway. Seems like a trick worth mentioning.
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https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/misc/cs0677?f1url=%3FappId%3Droslyn%26k%3Dk(CS0677)
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https://github.com/dotnet/docs/blob/main/docs/csharp/misc/cs0677.md
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