Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Strange code in 2.0.pre35 - apricot.c | Date | Sun, 12 Jul 1998 11:13:19 +0100 | From | Philip Blundell <> |
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>The 'hold' variable is needed in both cases to prevent the optimizer >from dropping the first clause, because some compilers don't >understand 'volatile' as meaning that seemingly ineffectual reads >shouldn't be dropped. Borland was notorious for this.
GCC does get that right, though.
p.
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