Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ames!nrl-cmf!cmcl2!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: volatile: a summary Message-ID: <8058@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: 9 Jun 88 22:05:39 GMT References: <11837@mimsy.UUCP> <225800035@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 6 In article <225800035@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes: >I think Chris is assuming too much here. He must live in a different >world than I do. I don't see how a manual is going to know what's in >a computer. But you forget that the compiler is also supposed to help write the manual. Down with people; they just get in the way!