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From: thp@cs.ucr.edu (Tom Payne)
Subject: Re: What's the best language to start with? [was: Re: Should I learn
 C or Pascal?]
Date: 1996/09/04
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Tanmoy Bhattacharya <tanmoy@qcd.lanl.gov> wrote:

: Not quite: Only volatile sig_atomic_t can be handled portably by a
: signal handler. Of course, one can cast away the volatile, but *that*
: is bad anyways.

And, for the record, the only portable handling is writing.  Even
reading provokes the goblin, "undefined behavior."

Tom Payne