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Re: [PATCH] Tree SRA and atomicity/volatility
> We don't have defined what TYPE_VOLATILE on a structure type means.
It means exactly the same as defined everywhere else: do as little as
possible (in a pragmatic sense) in changing the accesses to objects of
that type from the way they were originally written.
> And it certainly won't work the way the Ada frontend seems to thing for
> random structures and/or targets. I'm just requesting that we define what
> it means and that the Ada frontend maybe re-considers the way it
> want's to guarantee its 'atomicity' constraints on whole-aggregate access.
If there's a problem here, please be specific as to what it is because
I'm having trouble understanding this point.