[fpc-pascal] Lack of 'volatile' a serious issue. Any other such caveats?

[Sven Barth]

Am 19.12.2015 14:19 schrieb "Jonas Maebe" <jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be>:
>
> On 18/12/15 10:12, Lukasz Sokol wrote:
>>
>> I know FreePascal is not Linux, the Team is not Torvalds etc;)
>> but have you seen this ?
>>
>> https://lwn.net/Articles/233482/
>
>
> Maybe a "volatile" intrinsic, just like we already have an "unaligned"
intrinsic, would indeed be a better idea than adding the possibility to
mark data as volatile. As an extra plus, it would map directly onto LLVM :)
(which also only supports "volatile" as an attribute for load/store
instructions).

I've had the same thought when I read the article. :)

Regards,
Sven
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