Re: volatile markings to silence compilers - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: volatile markings to silence compilers
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In response to volatile markings to silence compilers  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:36 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> Looking over the release notes, we have added a few 'volatile' storage
> specifications to variables which are near longjump/TRY blocks to
> silence compilers.  I am worried that these specifications don't clearly
> identify their purpose.  Can we rename these to use a macro for
> 'volatile' that will make their purpose clearer and perhaps their
> removal one day easier?

I don't particularly see the point of this.

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Robert Haas
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