Ivan Warren wrote:
> Question :
> Is this *NORMAL* behavior ? I discussed this with some C folks and 
> they seem to think (at least some of them) that it's broken per 
> standards.. (volatile fields should be only read/written IFF 
> read/written explicitly - pretty much what section 6.3.7 of the C std 
> says).
>
...For Info...

I've submitted a gcc PR :

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26933

Anyway.. My apologies since this was a bit off topic..

--Ivan