Shouldn't ANSI have provided nonvolatile instead of volatile?

[Raymond Chen]

In article <17910 at rpp386.cactus.org> woody at rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker) writes:
>FIXED  i.e. fixed point math.  This type would deal with chars,ints, longs
>and quads.  There would be an assumed binary point in the middle of the
>data. ...

Can you say PL/I?  I knew you could...

 raymond at math.berkeley.edu         mathematician by training, hacker by choice