>>>>> "Kai" == Kai Henningsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Kai> As a QOI issue, it would be nice if such a situation caused a
Kai> warning ("ignoring volatile cast ..." or something like that).
Kai> It's rather dangerous to have the user believe that this worked
Kai> as intended when it didn't.
Definitely. We already have warnings for "this doesn't do what you
thought" -- like "statement has no effect" if you type == where = was
intended. Ignoring volatile is at least as deserving of a warning,
and probably more so, because the bugs created by that action are more
subtle.
paul
