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"VOLATILE" IS VERY C0NFUSING

amol bhrd

I AM NOT UNDERSTANDING THE SITUATION WHEN SHOULD I USE "VOLATILE" WITH VARIABLES ???

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  • 0 in reply to Andy Neil

    In practice, compiler writers - especially embedded compiler writers - probably realise that their customers do make use of such loops, and so they choose not to.

    Actually, I prefer it this way too: better safe than sorry. It's probably possible to take the spec to such an extreme that the resulting compiler wouldn't be useful for much of anything.
    It reminded me of this thread on the Linux kernel mailing list:
    kerneltrap.org/.../359162

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  • 0 in reply to Andy Neil

    In practice, compiler writers - especially embedded compiler writers - probably realise that their customers do make use of such loops, and so they choose not to.

    Actually, I prefer it this way too: better safe than sorry. It's probably possible to take the spec to such an extreme that the resulting compiler wouldn't be useful for much of anything.
    It reminded me of this thread on the Linux kernel mailing list:
    kerneltrap.org/.../359162

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