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Re: [gimple] assignments to volatile

> I honestly don't know if people want to deviate from the standard, and if
> so, why, or if they just have a different idea of what it says, or why
> they think it says what they think.

Implementing a standard precisely is good.  Doing what users expect is
also good.  When those two conflict, we have to choose which to do.
The former is USUALLY the right choice, but not always.  It depends on
the level of ambiguity in the standard and the historical legimacy of
the expectation.
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