volatile (in comp.lang.c)

[Karl Heuer]

In article <4922 at ihlpf.ATT.COM> nevin1 at ihlpf.UUCP (00704a-Liber,N.J.) writes:
>C itself does not guarantee that access to any particular data type,
>including char, is atomic.

Yes it does.  |sig_atomic_t| carries such a guarantee, though it's not
specified which primitive type this is a synonym for.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl at haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint