Date: Tue, 15 Nov 1994 16:31:16 -0500 (CDT)
From: Aaron Ucko <UCKO AT VAX1 DOT ROCKHURST DOT EDU>
Subject: Re: exit()
To: milgram AT eng DOT umd DOT edu
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Organization: Rockhurst College; Kansas City, MO

>I notice in djgppstd.h 'exit' is declared 'volatile void'. My understanding
>is that per ANSI 'exit' is just void. Is there some reason for adding the
>'volatile' type in djgpp?

So that GCC won't complain about your function not returning a value.  If this
is really a problem, it generally works to add -Dvolatile= to your flags (I
had to do this to compile nethack, for instance--now I'm trying unsuccessfully
to get it to work with Xlibemu.  It almost does!)

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