On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 08:47:15PM +0100, Gérard Roudier wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, J.A. Magallon wrote:
>
> There is nothing in this code that requires the compiler to allocate
> memory for 'b'. You just invent the volatile constant concept. :)
What's so strange about volatile constant? In C, const means you're
not allowed to modify something--not that it won't change. A read-only
hardware register, for instance, would be const and volatile.
Jeroen
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