Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Jan 2002 21:44:45 +0100 | From | jtv <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] C undefined behavior fix |
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On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 08:47:15PM +0100, Gérard Roudier wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, J.A. Magallon wrote: > > There is nothing in this code that requires the compiler to allocate > memory for 'b'. You just invent the volatile constant concept. :)
What's so strange about volatile constant? In C, const means you're not allowed to modify something--not that it won't change. A read-only hardware register, for instance, would be const and volatile.
Jeroen
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