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

[wkitty42 at windstream.net]

On 12/19/2015 11:33 AM, Sven Barth wrote:
> Am 19.12.2015 15:54 schrieb <wkitty42 at windstream.net>
[...]
>> not really... backwards compatibility and all that... borland's TP and BP
>> do the same... at least back as far as v6... i can't get to my v5 or v3 to
>> test but i daresay that they, too, do the same... looking forward from
>> them, i would hazard a guess that delphi also does the same...
>>
>> but then again, perhaps the devs could provide that guarantee in one of the
>> available language modes... perhaps with an additional mode switch...
>
> Why should we? That will only prohibit potential optimizations of the loop...

that's why i said "perhaps" ;)

i've run into it years ago but didn't know why... the recent discussions about 
it educated me... but long ago, i changed my coding patterns so as to not run 
into the situation...


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