how do the -fvolatile- switches work?

[Zack Weinberg]

Marcus Binny <marcusbinny@yahoo.com> writes:

>> 
>> They don't.  They have been broken since GCC 3.0 and
>> will be removed
>> entirely in GCC 3.4.
>> 
> what about 2.97?

There never was an official 2.97 release.  You could be talking about
any development snapshot released from mid-2000 through mid-2001.

2.95 is the last major official release in which the -fvolatile
options are known to have worked.  We do not know, nor do we care,
precisely what change broke them.

zw