access to a volatile variable

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jun 23, 1999, Nathan Sidwell <nathan@acm.org> wrote:

> If you've got a volatile T object and you really don't want to read
> it, why on Earth would you write `object;'?

I might write `foo();', where foo returns `volatile bar_t&'.  Would
this cause the returned bar_t to be read?  Should `(void)foo();'?
Note, I'm *explicitly* throwing away the result of the function,
should it be used regardless of my request?

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