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 * [Development Setup](development-setup.md)
 * [Volatile](volatile.md)
-* [Hardware Memory Map](hardware-memory-map.md)
+* [The Hardware Memory Map](the-hardware-memory-map.md)
 * [IO Registers](io-registers.md)
 * [Bitmap Video](bitmap-video.md)
 * [GBA Assembly](gba-asm.md)
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 # Volatile
+
+I know that you just got your first program running and you're probably excited
+to learn more about GBA stuff, but first we have to cover a subject that's not
+quite GBA specific.
+
+In the `hello_magic.rs` file we had these lines
+
+```rust
+    (0x600_0000 as *mut u16).offset(120 + 80 * 240).write_volatile(0x001F);
+    (0x600_0000 as *mut u16).offset(136 + 80 * 240).write_volatile(0x03E0);
+    (0x600_0000 as *mut u16).offset(120 + 96 * 240).write_volatile(0x7C00);
+```
+
+You've probably seen or heard of the
+[write](https://doc.rust-lang.org/core/ptr/fn.write.html) function before, but
+you'd be excused if you've never heard of its cousin function,
+[write_volatile](https://doc.rust-lang.org/core/ptr/fn.write_volatile.html).
+
+What's the difference? Well, when the compiler sees normal reads and writes, it
+assumes that those go into plain old memory locations. CPU registers, RAM,
+wherever it is that the value's being placed. The compiler assumes that it's
+safe to optimize away some of the reads and writes, or maybe issue the reads and
+writes in a different order from what you wrote. Normally this is okay, and it's
+exactly what we want the compiler to be doing, quietly making things faster for us.
+
+However, some of the time we access values from parts of memory where it's
+important that each access happen, and in the exact order that we say. In our
+`hello_magic.rs` example, we're writing directly into the video memory of the
+display. The compiler sees that the rest of the Rust program never read out of
+those locations, so it might think "oh, we can skip those writes, they're
+pointless". It doesn't know that we're having a side effect besides just storing
+some value at an address.
+
+By declaring a particular read or write to be `volatile` then we can force the
+compiler to issue that access. Further, we're guaranteed that all `volatile`
+access will happen in exactly the order it appears in the program relative to
+other `volatile` access. However, non-volatile access can still be re-ordered
+relative to a volatile access. In other words, for parts of the memory that are
+volatile, we must _always_ use a volatile read or write for our program to
+perform properly.
+
+For exactly this reason, we've got the [voladdress](https://docs.rs/voladdress/)
+crate. It used to be part of the GBA crate, but it became big enough to break
+out into a stand alone crate. It doesn't even do too much, it just makes it a
+lot less error prone to accidentally forget to use volatile with our memory
+mapped addresses. We just call `read` and `write` on any `VolAddress` that we
+happen to see and the right thing will happen.