Interlocked and volatile

Question

I have a variable which I am using to represent state. It can be read and written to from multiple threads.

I am using Interlocked.Exchange and In

Answer 1

You can safely disregard that warning when you're using Interlocked.Xxx functions (see this question), because they always do volatile operations. So a volatile variable is perfectly OK for shared state. If you want to get rid of the warning at all costs, you actually can do an interlocked read with Interlocked.CompareExchange (ref counter, 0, 0).

Edit: Actually, you need volatile on your state variable only if you are going to write to it directly (i.e. not using Interlocked.Xxx). As jerryjvl mentioned, reads of a variable updated with an interlocked (or volatile) operation will use the most recent value.