DIP20: Volatile read/write intrinsics

[deadalnix]

Le 10/10/2012 20:31, Alex Rønne Petersen a écrit :
> http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?LanguageDevel/DIPs/DIP20
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> This supersedes DIP17.
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> The primary reason to use intrinsics instead of something built into the
> language is that the latter is too complex for current (and likely also
> future) compiler implementations.
>
> Destroy!
>

We discussed it quite a lot already, but I still think volatile must be 
a qualifier of the memory, and not of the statement.

In other terms, volatile should alter the way memory is read and 
written, on every access to that memory. Not on a specific statement.