Bug#164554: gcc-3.2: volatile not respected on alpha
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 06:01:24PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>
> I don't see the problem. Volatile in C doesn't provide any sort of
> barrier; you have to place one yourself if you want one. It only
> guaranatees that the two accesses to "i" will not be reordered or
> eliminated.
My copy of C99 says:
5 The least requirements on a conforming implementation are:
- At sequence points, volatile objects are stable in the sense that previou
s accesses are
complete and subsequent accesses have not yet occurred.
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