[Info-vax] C et al (was: Re: Rust as a HS language, was: Re: Quiet?)

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-04-10, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
> On 2022-04-10 02:29:53 +0000, Stephen Hoffman said:
>
>> My usual pointer to just what volatile provides, and doesn't provide:
>> 
>> http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p1152r0.html
>
> For those that believe there is but one write with volatile, there's 
> one write per byte yes, but there can be multiple and arbitrary-ordered 
> writes involved within that operation.
>

Any compiler doing anything as brain-dead as that would instantly be
dropped and if it was an open-source compiler, would instantly be
forked, XFree86 style, and the brain-dead additions removed.

Simon.

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