Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Bernd Petrovitsch <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] C undefined behavior fix | | Date | Thu, 10 Jan 2002 11:44:05 +0100 |
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In message <20020109204043.T1027-100000@gerard>, G rard Roudier wrote: >On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, J.A. Magallon wrote: >> On 20020107 jtv wrote: >> >Let's say we have this simplified version of the problem: >> > >> > int a = 3; >> > { >> > volatile int b = 10; >> >> >>>>>>>>> here b changes > >Hmmm... >Then your hardware is probably broken or may-be you are dreaming. :-)
No, it may be e.g. a Rx/Tx-register in a standard UART chip, which is memory-mapped at some address. Actually reading and writing the same address then would get different registers in the hardware. Reading two times may get different values. You would actually access this register through a "volatile char *" but that's not a significant difference to the concept of "volatile", so I see above as a simple example (and not as an optimizer-guru's discussion subject "can we optimize just this volatile expression in that context"). >There is nothing in this code that requires the compiler to allocate >memory for 'b'. You just invent the volatile constant concept. :)
Nope, this existed before as jtv@xs4all.nl explained correctly.
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