volatile: is NOT a frill, is increasingly necessary

[00704a-Liber]

In article <1975 at winchester.mips.COM> mash at winchester.UUCP (John Mashey) writes:
>(Cross-posted to unix.wizards: see comments at ned)

>In article <1988Mar30.110820.23882 at light.uucp> bvs at light.UUCP (Bakul Shah) writes:
>	a) Our compiler team put in volatile, and until
>	b) We got volatile to act completely right. [nontrivial]

In other words, you implemented 'volatile' to conform with the final
definition in the ANSI standard??  What powers of prediction you have!!  :-)
What are you going to do if volatile doesn't act quite the way you defined
it when your compiler team put in volatile??
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