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

[downs]

Walter Bright wrote:
> downs wrote:
>> Walter: I'm certain that you thought changing the behavior of
>> volatile was a good idea at the time, ill-defined though it was, but
>> let me assure you, the act left a gaping hole in the language.
> 
> You are using the GDC back end, and I don't know what it does with the
> volatile information provided by the front end. Please add a bugzilla
> bug report for GDC on this.

Filed. Thanks for the advice.