Heads-up: volatile and C++

[Mike Stump]

On Apr 18, 2005, at 3:08 PM, Ken Raeburn wrote:
> Is there anything in the language specifications (mainly C++ in  
> this context, but is this an area where C and C++ are going to  
> diverge, or is C likely to follow suit?) that prohibits spurious  
> writes to a location?

No, in both languages.  The reason is there isn't a way to observe  
it, if there were, then the answer would be yes.

Volatile for example provides a way to observe it, and in that case,  
the spurious write is prohibited.