Return to volatile CVS log

Up to [MW Coherent from dump] / coherent / a / usr / man / ALL

Annotation of coherent/a/usr/man/ALL/volatile, revision 1.1

1.1     ! root        1: 
        !             2: 
        !             3: volatile                    C Keyword                    volatile
        !             4: 
        !             5: 
        !             6: 
        !             7: 
        !             8: Qualify an identifier as frequently changing
        !             9: 
        !            10: 
        !            11: The  type qualifier  volatile marks an  identifier as  being fre-
        !            12: quently changed, either by  other portions of the program, by the
        !            13: hardware, by  other programs in the  execution environment, or by
        !            14: any combination of these.  This alerts the translator to re-fetch
        !            15: the given  identifier whenever  it encounters an  expression that
        !            16: includes  the  identifier.   In  addition,  an object  marked  as
        !            17: volatile must be stored at  the point where an assignment to this
        !            18: object takes place.
        !            19: 
        !            20: ***** See Also *****
        !            21: 
        !            22: C keyword, const
        !            23: 
        !            24: ***** Notes *****
        !            25: 
        !            26: Although COHERENT recognizes  this keyword, the semantics are not
        !            27: implemented  in  this  release.   Thus,  storage declared  to  be
        !            28: volatile might have  references removed by optimizations that the
        !            29: compiler performs.   The compiler will generate  a warning if the
        !            30: peephole  optimizer  is  enabled  and  the  keyword  volatile  is
        !            31: detected.
        !            32: 
        !            33: 
        !            34: 
        !            35: 
        !            36: 
        !            37: 
        !            38: 
        !            39: 
        !            40: 
        !            41: 
        !            42: 
        !            43: 
        !            44: 
        !            45: 
        !            46: 
        !            47: 
        !            48: 
        !            49: 
        !            50: 
        !            51: 
        !            52: 
        !            53: 
        !            54: 
        !            55: 
        !            56: 
        !            57: 
        !            58: 
        !            59: 
        !            60: 
        !            61: 
        !            62: 
        !            63: 
        !            64: COHERENT Lexicon                                           Page 1
        !            65: 
        !            66: 

This archive runs on limited infrastructure. Preserving old code on modern bandwidth. Automated agents are requested to crawl responsibly.