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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
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Subject: Re: Shouldn't ANSI have provided nonvolatile instead of volatile?
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Date: 8 Feb 90 02:31:03 GMT
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In article <1117.18:37:35@stealth.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@stealth.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
>The default case should be the safe one.

No, the default case should be the common one.  Most programs have *no*
volatile variables.  Programmers would get pretty tired of writing
"nonvolatile" before every variable declaration.
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