Re: [PATCH] C undefined behavior fix

mike stump
2002-01-08T00:17:49Z

> Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 22:49:07 +0100
> From: jtv <jtv@xs4all.nl>
> To: Bernard Dautrevaux <Dautrevaux@microprocess.com>

> One problem I ran into considering 'char *volatile' was this one:
> the compiler is supposed to disable certain optimizations involving
> registerization and such, but isn't it still allowed to do constant
> folding?

No. That would be a bug. gcc used to have volatile bugs, most of
them are now gone. Please submit a bug report, if you can discover it
again.

I assume you meant something like this:

char * volatile cp;

main() {
return cp - cp;
}