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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Ada is almost useless in embedded systems
Date: 1996/02/17
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Date: 1996-02-17T00:00:00+00:00
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John McCabe says

"> What pragma shared is _not_ is a directive to enforce no optimisation
> of an object. On the other hand, this is exactly what the C volatile
> qualifier is."

Not quite, in particular the "exactly" here is confusing. THe exact
definition of volatile is a little tricky (but quite precise). The
meaning of "optimization" is also tricky and not at all precise.