Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: gcc-2.8.0 miscompiles kernel (Was: gcc-2.8 out...) | Date | Mon, 19 Jan 1998 22:12:28 +0000 (GMT) |
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> Hmmmmm, are you _sure_ that's a bug ? The cast says that the pointed > value is volatile, not the pointer itself. So the compiler can, I > think, still legally assume that the memory zone assigned through the > pointer will be destroyed after the return.
Oh bog.. I do indeed have the volabloodytile keyword in the wrong place yes. Try it as he suggested and lets see
> *((u32 * volatile)&eflags)=val; should make it behave though. I'm not > really sure. That's quite a tricky part of the standard.
Alan
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