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Re: volatile [was: GCC warnings for unused global variables]
Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.oz.au> writes:
[...]
| > since the committee does consider
| > member functions that are volatile-qualified which, for one thing, is
| > an indication that volatile was expected to be used with classes.
|
| I think that was more for orthogonality and simplicity than because
| they expected it to be used or useful.
It is clear tht they expected it to be used. Did they expect it to be
useful? I would say no, given the general sentiment about volatile
among the C++ committee members.
-- Gaby