DMD 1.029 and 2.013 releases

Sean Kelly sean at invisibleduck.org
Sat Apr 26 07:46:05 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.

Even if the function is inlined?


Sean


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