Hi,

On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, skaller wrote:

> The point is -- there is no new rule here, and no definition
> of what a volatile semantics is: volatile variables have
> the SAME 'semantics' as any other variable. If I write:
> 
>       int a = 1;
>       printf("%d", a);
>       int b = 2;
>       printf("a,b);
> 
> then it is just the same as if a,b were volatile.

Not at all.  As neither a nor b are global memory, printf() (or any other 
function) could not access them, hence no observer could determine if or 
if not 'b' is already set.  In contrast to when a and b were volatile.


Ciao,
Michael.

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