volatile qualifier

Fergus Henderson fjh@cs.mu.oz.au
Wed Aug 15 03:04:00 GMT 2001


On 15-Aug-2001, Rob Taylor <robt@flyingpig.com> wrote:
> I notice that in ISO C++, volatile is treated like const,
> 
> so my question is:
> If i declare an inline member function volatile, does this mean that that
> function will always be generated as caution about optimisation, or will it only
> be generated as cautious about optimisation if the object is volatile?

The former.

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