Subj : Re: Memory Barriers, Compiler Optimizations, etc.
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Joseph Seigh
Date : Mon Feb 07 2005 07:47 am

On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 11:17:07 +0100, Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> wrote:

>
> Yes. Note that I said "volatile abuse". Simply put, when you write
> something like
>
> volatile int i = 1;
>
> int main() {
>   return --i;
> }
>
> you better be prepared that smart compiler can tranform it to
>
> int main() {
> }
>

The variable i doesn't have an external attribute.  It can't be
seen anyway.

-- 
Joe Seigh

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