Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!oliveb!sun!gorodish!guy From: guy@gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Volatile is stupid Message-ID: <55989@sun.uucp> Date: 9 Jun 88 19:45:40 GMT References: <11837@mimsy.UUCP> <225800035@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <5800@aw.sei.cmu.edu> Sender: news@sun.uucp Lines: 4 As I understand it, not all "volatile" locations are that way only because some piece of external hardware is going to change them; even if they were, there's no guarantee that you can specify that a fixed range of addresses (other than, say, 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff on a machine with 32-bit addresses) are potentially volatile and that no others are.