volatile semantics

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Mike Stump <mrs@apple.com> writes:

| On Jul 17, 2005, at 4:48 AM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| > C++ has resisted, for two decades, the temptation of "improving" the
| > meaning of volatile :-) considering that it is C's baby.
| 
| Do you know what the semantics of:
| 
|      a;
| 
| are in C and C++?
| 
| :-(

As much as I hate it; the rule was not designed to "improve" over
C-semantics of volatile.  It is in the same exception-family I mentioned
in the previous message. 

-- Gaby