DIP62: Volatile type qualifier for unoptimizable variables in embedded programming

[Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d]

On 17 July 2014 17:16, Sean Kelly via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> We had the volatile statement as a compiler barrier in D1. Why not basically
> that instead of a type qualifier?  We pretty much need it back for atomics
> anyway.

I don't recall volatile statements ever working properly, or at least
working in an agreed way.