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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 16:16:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: user-mode port 0.44-2.4.7
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On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
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> I will if Honza assures me that no future version of gcc will cause me to
> crash if I don't declare xtime volatile and I play with it while it can
> change under me (which seems not the case from his last email).

WHY DO YOU NOT ADD THE "VOLATILE" TO THE PLACES THAT _CARE_?

This is not a gcc issue. Even if gcc _were_ to generate bad code, the
global volatile _still_ wouldn't be the correct answer.

		Linus

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