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From: Mikko Levanto <mikko.levanto@iki.fi>
Subject: Re: Handling Addressing Errors
Date: 1999/03/19
Date: 1999-03-19T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <36F21863.7D71@iki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 36F17DAC.E80F01DD@averstar.com

Tucker Taft wrote:

> This is made explicit in RM95 C.6(20) and 1.1.3(13), which indicates
> that the "external effect" of a program includes *each*
> read and update of a volatile or atomic object.
> It is illegal to optimize away an external effect (RM95 1.1.3(15)).

Can optimization affect the number of accesses ?
E.g., if A is volatile, does

   A := A + A;

always cause two reads and one write?

-- 
Mikko J. Levanto
mailto:mikko.levanto@vtt.fi




  reply	other threads:[~1999-03-19  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-03-03  0:00 Handling Addressing Errors Charles H. Sampson
1999-03-04  0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-04  0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-18  0:00   ` Charles H. Sampson
1999-03-18  0:00     ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-21  0:00       ` robert_dewar
1999-03-18  0:00     ` Tucker Taft
1999-03-19  0:00       ` Mikko Levanto [this message]
1999-03-19  0:00         ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-20  0:00         ` Tucker Taft
1999-04-02  0:00       ` Charles H. Sampson
1999-03-19  0:00     ` robert_dewar
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