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From: ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Optimization (was Re: volatile)
Message-ID: <895@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
Date: 25 Apr 88 04:32:14 GMT
References: <13074@brl-adm.ARPA> <280@fxgrp.UUCP>
Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA
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Having expressed vehement opposition to 'noalias', I'd like to balance
things out by supporting 'volatile'.  The effect of 'volatile' has to
be available somehow if C is to be useful for writing device drivers &
so on, and it shouldn't be a #pragma because #pragma isn't supposed to
change what anything _means_.  The very worst thing about 'volatile'
is that on the evidence of this newsgroup, a lot of people have trouble
spelling it (:-).