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Re: Heads-up: volatile and C++


On Apr 18, 2005, at 3:08 PM, Ken Raeburn wrote:
Is there anything in the language specifications (mainly C++ in this context, but is this an area where C and C++ are going to diverge, or is C likely to follow suit?) that prohibits spurious writes to a location?

No, in both languages. The reason is there isn't a way to observe it, if there were, then the answer would be yes.


Volatile for example provides a way to observe it, and in that case, the spurious write is prohibited.


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