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From: jas@llama.rtech.UUCP (Jim Shankland)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: noalias comments to X3J11
Message-ID: <1878@rtech.UUCP>
Date: 28 Mar 88 07:01:10 GMT
References: <12578@brl-adm.ARPA> <1988Mar25.172355.348@utzoo.uucp>
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Reply-To: jas@llama.UUCP (Jim Shankland)
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In article <1988Mar25.172355.348@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>>>`Volatile,' in particular, is a frill for esoteric applications...
>>
>> What about an interrupt routine ....
>
>Interrupt routines are almost by definition esoteric, not to mention highly
>machine-specific.  Only on PCs do users commonly write their own interrupt
>routines....

Oh, all right, I'll rise to the bait.  What about shared memory applications?
Surely memory that can be written by another process at any time is volatile.
Do we really want to claim that all code addressing shared memory is part
of an "esoteric application"?
Jim Shankland
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