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From: rfg@NCD.COM (Ron Guilmette)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: volatile in cfront 2.0
Message-ID: <1478@lupine.NCD.COM>
Date: 7 Sep 90 21:54:47 GMT
References: <1990Sep6.214428.18551@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: Network Computing Devices, Inc., Mt. View, CA
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In article <1990Sep6.214428.18551@Neon.Stanford.EDU> philip@pescadero.stanford.edu writes:
>I am attempting to port C++ 2.0 (using AT&T source code) to a machine
>which uses the "volatile" type specifier in its C header files. Cfront
>2.0 strips out volatile in the mangled C output, and gives the message
>
>warning: " volatile" not implemented (ignored)
>
>I can think of 2 possibilities here:
>
>1. filter the headers before and after cfront, e.g., convert all "volatile"
>   to /*volatile*/, then back
>2. find the place in the source where volatile is stripped and change it

Option #3:

	Add the following to your $(CFLAGS) in your Makefile(s):

		-Dvolatile=""

>... For that matter, why _is_ volatile not implemented?

The usual reasons.  Time and money. :-)

P.S.  Note that the `signed' keyword is unappreciated by cfront 2.0 also.

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