const, volatile, etc [was Re: #defines with parameters]

[Henry Spencer]

In article <369 at aber-cs.UUCP> pcg at cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:
>... In Classic C the concept was that the compiler would
>take register as an hint of which variables could always be safely cached in
>register (and the user be forbidden to take pointer to them), and all the
>others could be cached only if it was guaranteed that doing so would not
>"cause surprises".

Please cite references for this.  It's never been true.
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