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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Volatile declaration in C++
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Date: 16 Oct 89 14:51:59 GMT
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <4176@pegasus.ATT.COM> psrc@pegasus.ATT.COM (Paul S. R. Chisholm) writes:
>And so they invented the keyword "volatile", which (among other
>things) would announce the presence of aliases.

If you're going to be silly, at least you should get it right.
"volatile" is still specified in the C Standard, and it has nothing
to do with aliases.  It was "noalias", which indicated a promise
by the programmer that aliases were NOT present, that was backed out.