Volatile declaration in C++

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL
Tue Oct 17 00:51:59 AEST 1989


In article <4176 at pegasus.ATT.COM> psrc at pegasus.ATT.COM (Paul S. R. Chisholm) writes:
>And so they invented the keyword "volatile", which (among other
>things) would announce the presence of aliases.

If you're going to be silly, at least you should get it right.
"volatile" is still specified in the C Standard, and it has nothing
to do with aliases.  It was "noalias", which indicated a promise
by the programmer that aliases were NOT present, that was backed out.



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