[dmd-concurrency] draft 7

[Fawzi Mohamed]

On 2-feb-10, at 13:20, Fawzi Mohamed wrote:

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> On 2-feb-10, at 07:19, Robert Jacques wrote:
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>> On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:04:37 -0500, Sean Kelly <sean at invisibleduck.org 
>> > wrote:
>>> Sadly, volatile is deprecated in D 2.0.  You pretty much have to  
>>> use inline asm and rely on the fact that Walter has said D  
>>> compilers should never optimize in or across asm code.
>>
>> Well, to the best of my knowledge volatile has never been  
>> implemented in D 1.0, which is one of the reason's it was dropped  
>> from D 2.0.
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> that is very sad, I did find volatile very useful, I was  
> interpreting it as something like a way to switch off the  
> optimizations in a code segment, so that one can have some kind of  
> portable asm.
> I find it very useful together with barriers...
... does it mean that my code is incorrect in general (in D 1.0)?