Path: utzoo!utgpu!utfyzx!oscvax!utflis!stilley
From: stilley@utflis.UUCP (Scott Tilley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: read-only objects
Message-ID: <1087@utflis.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 3-Aug-88 22:38:18 EDT
References: <8807300158.AA05816@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: stilley@flis.toronto.edu.UUCP (Scott Tilley)
Organization: FLIS, University of Toronto
Lines: 12
Keywords: Ada, C
Summary: 


Sorry for the x-post all, but the "read-only", hardware-modifiable
attribute is quite simple in C: it would have both the 'const'
and 'volatile' attributes. Thus, programmer could not change it,
but the hardware can always alter the storage.
 
 For example, 
   const volatile int foo;
 
 Just to show that Ada does not rule the world (yet).
  
	   ..Scott