volatile (in comp.lang.c)

[David Collier-Brown]

In article <6612 at lll-winken.llnl.gov> brooks at lll-crg.llnl.gov.UUCP (Eugene D. Brooks III) writes:
>obviously needs further development in the context of multiprocessing.
>Perhaps this will happen in the second "standards cycle" for C.  With all
>the VLSI based multiprocessors hitting the market, good language support
>for them will become very important.

  Yup.
  The Sequent is probably a good example: their cache algorithms are
subtle and (seemingly) elegant

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