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Re: GCC warnings for unused global variables
- From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>
- To: bkorb at veritas dot com
- Cc: GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: 02 May 2003 18:43:19 +0200
- Subject: Re: GCC warnings for unused global variables
- Organization: Integrable Solutions
- References: <3EB299FC.30090839@veritas.com>
Bruce Korb <bkorb@veritas.com> writes:
[...]
| unusual interpretation of the wording. REMEMBER: you are trying
| to help programmers accomplish their task. You are not trying to
| cause grief just because the law of the C language left a hole
| allowing you to whack 'em.
I think you got my messages wrong.
What I was saying, as already written in another message, is that
volatile is not a reliable feature to use to write robust code with
reproducible or predictable behaviour.
-- Gaby