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Re: [Ada] Interpret 13.3(19) conservatively

From: Arnaud Charlet <charlet at adacore dot com>
To: Duncan Sands <baldrick at free dot fr>
Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at adacore dot com>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:55:36 +0200
Subject: Re: [Ada] Interpret 13.3(19) conservatively
References: <200709170830.56642.ebotcazou@adacore.com> <200709170952.44284.baldrick@free.fr>

> Hi Eric, why not require the programmer to mark the variable as volatile?

Because that would require tenth of millions of lines of legacy code to be
reviewed and changed, which is basically out of the question, and simply not
practical.

Arno

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