Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: noalias comments to X3J11
Message-ID: <1988Mar25.172355.348@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <12578@brl-adm.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 88 17:23:55 GMT

>>`Volatile,' in particular, is a frill for esoteric applications...
>
> What about an interrupt routine which receives control on a keyboard
> interrupt and sets a globally known flag.  That doesn't sound very
> esoteric to me...

Interrupt routines are almost by definition esoteric, not to mention highly
machine-specific.  Only on PCs do users commonly write their own interrupt
routines; in more modern environments [MSDOS is a Neanderthal operating
system, its only saving grace being some of the nifty applications that run
on it] such things generally are confined to the bowels of the operating
system, where they belong.
-- 
"Noalias must go.  This is           |  Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
non-negotiable."  --DMR              | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry