Re: GNU C keyword volatile, GNU compiler/optimizer and instruction re-ordering

"Toon Moene" <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>
13 Oct 2002 16:07:43 -0400

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From: "Toon Moene" <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 13 Oct 2002 16:07:43 -0400
Organization: Moene Computational Physics, Maartensdijk, The Netherlands
References: 02-09-118 02-09-122 02-09-170
Keywords: C
Posted-Date: 13 Oct 2002 16:07:43 EDT

Mike Stump wrote:


[ ... snip - Sorry, Mike. ]


> [I find that the main use of volatile is as a portable way to write
> fundamentally unportable code like device drivers. -John]


Please tell the Fortran Committee - see http://j3-fortran.org for the
mailing lists. I've tried to argue this position in vain for about a
year now, but - if nothing disatrous happens in the public review
process - the VOLATILE attribute will be in Fortran 2000.


Thanks in advance,
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