[C-Semantics] volatiles

John Regehr regehr at cs.utah.edu
Thu Jun 23 12:49:54 CDT 2011


> I'm wondering since there is that sentence "What constitutes an access
> to an object that has volatile-qualified type is
> implementation-defined."

I should add that I do not know of any C implementations that take 
meaningful advantage of the freedom that this sentence appears to offer.

Such a compiler would likely be useless for embedded systems and 
operating systems.

John


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