Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!necntc!frog!john
From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: volatile
Message-ID: <1025@X.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 88 05:23:00 GMT
References: <20345@pyramid.pyramid.com> <502@wsccs.UUCP>
Organization: Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA
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In article <502@wsccs.UUCP>, terry@wsccs.UUCP (Every system needs one) writes:
> 	Yes, but why is
< 
> 		volitile int foo;
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> 	better than
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> 		int foo;	/* VOLITILE*/
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> 	Except for the optimizer?

Because /* VOLITILE */ is in all uppercase, and makes me want to smash in
my terminal screen with a sledgehammer.  :-)

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