Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!ima!haddock!karl
From: karl@haddock.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: volatile (in comp.lang.c)
Message-ID: <4391@haddock.ISC.COM>
Date: 3 Jun 88 04:53:34 GMT
References: <20345@pyramid.pyramid.com> <833@mcdsun.UUCP> <1988May23.003847.1114@utzoo.uucp> <1078@micomvax.UUCP> <4922@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
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In article <4922@ihlpf.ATT.COM> nevin1@ihlpf.UUCP (00704a-Liber,N.J.) writes:
>C itself does not guarantee that access to any particular data type,
>including char, is atomic.

Yes it does.  |sig_atomic_t| carries such a guarantee, though it's not
specified which primitive type this is a synonym for.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint