Shouldn't ANSI have provided nonvolatile instead of volatile?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <1117.18:37:35 at stealth.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd at stealth.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
>The default case should be the safe one.

No, the default case should be the common one.  Most programs have *no*
volatile variables.  Programmers would get pretty tired of writing
"nonvolatile" before every variable declaration.
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