A different view of volatile

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <7996 at pur-ee.UUCP> hankd at pur-ee.UUCP (Hank Dietz) writes:
>Why not make use of this SAFE, prior-art, compiler hint?

Any attempt to make "register" a type qualifier rather than a storage
class is likely to conflict with existing practice.  Otherwise I more
or less agree with the notion.

In any case, it's too late to change this in the forthcoming Standard.