DMD 1.029 and 2.013 releases

Lars Ivar Igesund larsivar at igesund.net
Sat Apr 26 03:34:45 PDT 2008


Walter Bright wrote:

> Sean Kelly wrote:
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>> Sean Kelly wrote:
>>>> I suppose the obvious question here is: what if I want to create a
>>>> mutex in D?
>>>
>>> Why do you need volatile for that?
>> 
>> To restrict compiler optimizations performed on the code.
> 
> The optimizer won't move global or pointer references across a function
> call boundary.

Is that true for all compiler's or only DigitalMars ones?

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