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> Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston Lines: 8 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