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                      3: volatile                    C Keyword                    volatile
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                      8: Qualify an identifier as frequently changing
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                     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
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                     20: ***** See Also *****
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                     22: C keyword, const
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                     24: ***** Notes *****
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                     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
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