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From: sarima@gryphon.CTS.COM (Stan Friesen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Volatile is Necessary
Message-ID: <3113@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 3 Apr 88 21:21:14 GMT
References: <8107@sol.ARPA> <580@garth.UUCP> <4192@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: sarima@gryphon.CTS.COM (Stan Friesen)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <4192@ihlpf.ATT.COM> nevin1@ihlpf.UUCP (00704a-Liber,N.J.) writes:
>
>  'Volatile', however, IS part of the
>language specification.  I consider it to be a 'frill' because nothing else
>in the language specification addresses hardware, per se.

	But 'volatile' does NOT address *hardware*, it addresses asynchronous
change is a value, which *may* be due to hardware, or to the execution of a
logically asynchronous control thread(either a seperate process or a control
thread in a single process such as a signal handler). It is needed often enough
that I think it makes a meaningful addition to the language.