Warning: volatile does NOT do what you think it does. WRT. DS or similar development.

[grauzone]

Maybe that's why Walter just decided to remove volatile in D2.0:

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/statement.html#VolatileStatement
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/statement.html#VolatileStatement
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/changelog.html#new2_013

I guess in D2.0, volatile accesses will be explicitly done with 
read_atomic()/write_atomic() style functions?

PS: downs, why do you still trust the compiler, after all the bugs you 
have found?