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From: walter@garth.UUCP (Walter Bays)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: volatile
Message-ID: <585@garth.UUCP>
Date: 29 Mar 88 23:42:39 GMT
References: <12578@brl-adm.ARPA> <1988Mar25.172355.348@utzoo.uucp> <588@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> <1988Mar29.004454.2867@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: walter@garth.UUCP (Walter Bays)
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In article <1988Mar29.004454.2867@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>Nobody is saying that the concept is not necessary in certain specialized
>situations.  The point is that these are a sufficiently small subset of C
>applications that the need should addressed with #pragma, rather than by
>cluttering up the type system with it.  The principal problem with #pragma
>is that it is not portable, since its semantics are not standardized, but
>the sort of code we're talking about isn't portable anyway.

Programs using signal handlers and/or shared memory could be portable.
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