volatile

Chris Torek chris at mimsy.UUCP
Thu May 12 19:21:49 AEST 1988


In article <4727 at ihlpf.ATT.COM> nevin1 at ihlpf.ATT.COM (00704a-Liber) writes:
>... If it can't be well-defined, it shouldn't be in the language.

This line of reasoning also rules out integer-to-pointer casts,
as I noted earlier:

	struct rkdevice *rkaddr = (struct rkdevice *)0777440;

I am perfectly happy with ill-defined constructs.  (I consider other
some arguments for and against volatile valid.)
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