+ /** Forces GCC to create a memory barrier, ensuring that memory accesses are not reordered past the barrier point.
+ * This can be used before ordering-critical operations, to ensure that the compiler does not re-order the resulting
+ * assembly output in an unexpected manner on sections of code that are ordering-specific.
+ */
+ #define GCC_MEMORY_BARRIER() __asm__ __volatile__("" ::: "memory");
+