Type Qualifier [volatile]
Leo de Wit
leo at ehviea.ine.philips.nl
Fri May 25 21:50:17 AEST 1990
In article <1990May22.124936.5727 at aucs.uucp> 880716a at aucs.UUCP (Dave Astels) writes:
|In article <4275 at infmx.UUCP> briand at infmx.UUCP (brian donat) writes:
|> When would a programmer want to explicitly use the
|> 'auto' storage class?
|
|I've often wondered that myself. If you find out, let me know.
Today's tendency for J. Random Hacker is to prefer 'bike' storage class
to 'auto' storage class; using additional keywords like push(-bike) to
explicitly request stack allocation, or mountain (bike) for huge
stacks. The last one is not supported very well on Intel architectures.
:-).
Leo.
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