volatile: a summary

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <2742 at ttrdc.UUCP> levy at ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes:
>For argument's sake, is this something which could potentially be specified
>in the proposed ANSI C specification?  Does the spec have any notion of
>the existence of "compiler flags," i.e., furnishing information not in the
>source code itself to the compiler at compile time?

No -- every different way of invoking a compiler constitutes a
different implementation from the standards viewpoint.  Some
implementations will be Standard conforming and some will not.