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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: A different view of volatile
Message-ID: <7768@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 26 Apr 88 16:50:41 GMT
References: <13074@brl-adm.ARPA> <2003@rtech.UUCP> <7996@pur-ee.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <7996@pur-ee.UUCP> hankd@pur-ee.UUCP (Hank Dietz) writes:
>Why not make use of this SAFE, prior-art, compiler hint?

Any attempt to make "register" a type qualifier rather than a storage
class is likely to conflict with existing practice.  Otherwise I more
or less agree with the notion.

In any case, it's too late to change this in the forthcoming Standard.