Re: Fix volatile vs. pointer confusion - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 2019-03-11 12:57, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Looking at recently committed 2e616dee9e60, we have introduced this:
> 
> +       volatile xmlBufferPtr buf = NULL;
> +       volatile xmlNodePtr cur_copy = NULL;
> 
> where the pointer-ness nature of the object is inside the typedef.  I
> *suppose* that this is correct as written.  There are a few occurrences
> of this pattern in eg. contrib/xml2.

I think this is correct, but I don't want to wreck my sanity trying to
understand the syntax-level details of why.

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