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Re: Volatile qualification on pointer and data
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Paulo J. Matos <paulo@matos-sorge.com> wrote:
> On 21/09/11 15:21, David Brown wrote:
>>
>> And since this
>> situation would not occur in real code (at least, not code that is
>> expected to do something useful other than test the compiler's code
>> generation), there is no harm in making sub-optimal object code.
>>
>
> Actually the reason why I noticed this is because one of our engineers told
> that GCC stopped generating instructions for certain operations when he
> moved from GCC45 to GCC46. This code is real code.
Btw, I think this is an old bug that has been resolved. Did you make sure to
test a recent 4.6 branch snapshot or svn head?
> Cheers,
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> PMatos
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