DIP62: Volatile type qualifier for unoptimizable variables in embedded programming

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 7/18/2014 4:58 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
> On 07/18/2014 08:37 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> That doesn't change the heavy effort in the semantic front end
>
> What does this mean in detail? Is it just about the unfortunate AST
> representation chosen or are there more sources of heavy effort in the front end?

Again, take a look at the hundreds of references to volatile all through the C++ 
specification for some idea.