[Info-vax] Ada x86 (was Rdb/x86)

[John Dallman]

In article <rq5f6i$npl$1 at dont-email.me>,
clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP (Simon Clubley) wrote:

> Would declaring the variables volatile have avoided this reordering?

As best I recall, it didn't, but the pattern is so common in our code
that we could not have use that as a solution. 

> And talking of volatile, I wonder if John has encountered any cases
> with LLVM where variables now need to be declared volatile where 
> they did not need to be with the DEC compilers.

I have not used the DEC compilers for about twenty years, and the code I
work on has changed a lot in that time. Sorry I can't be more help. 

John