Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!tuvie!rcvie
From: rcvie@tuvie (ELIN Forsch.z.)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: noalias comments to X3J11
Message-ID: <597@tuvie>
Date: 28 Mar 88 13:09:19 GMT
References: <12578@brl-adm.ARPA> <1988Mar25.172355.348@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: rcvie@tuvie.UUCP (D. Weickert)
Organization: Technical University of Vienna
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In article <1988Mar25.172355.348@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>Interrupt routines are almost by definition esoteric, not to mention highly
>machine-specific.

Signal handlers will be at least very similar to interrupt routines. Still it
does not seem to be esoteric to me, if I set a flag in such a handler. And now
please tell me, how to tell the compiler it must not `optimize' the access to
this flag?


		Dietmar Weickert,
			ALCATEL-ELIN Research Center, Vienna, Austria.