#define volatile /*empty*/

[Stephen J. Friedl]

In article <9302 at smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> 
> It occurs to me that I may not have made this clear enough.
> A portable, standard-conforming program does not become nonportable
> or non-conforming upon addition of [feature of ANSI C].

One might point out here that "portable" and "standard-conforming"
are not necessary the same thing.  Many of us will have to deal
with pre-ANS compilers for a very long time, and "complaining to
our vendor" will do as much good as complaining to our Congressman.

     Steve

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