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From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: What is 'volatile'?
Date: Sat, 01 Jun 1996 14:42:08 -0700
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Christoph P. Kukulies wrote:

> It's an extension to C (can be found in the gcc docs) and means
> that something declared 'volatile' (a function or a variable or
> another entity) should not be touched by any compiler optimization
> algorithm..

Actually, the `volatile' keyword is standard ANSI C.

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