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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Ada is almost useless in embedded systems
Date: 1996/02/18
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Date: 1996-02-18T00:00:00+00:00
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John says

"As far as K&RII is concerned, in the section in the back with the
annotations it explains the purpose of the volatile qualifier as being
to ensure that the compiler doesn't optimize e.g. redundant
assignments etc on a particular object."

John, get a copy of the ANSI standard if you want to discuss things at
this level. K&RII is not a full accurate description of the standard (nor
does it pretend to be!)

Any serious C programmer should (a) have a copy of the ANSI standard and
(b) know their way around it.

The same of course is true for Ada programmers.

I am not saying that people should learn the languages from the standard,
that's asking too much, but you should learn to use it as a reference,
since it is the only authoritative source for detailed semantic information
in both cases.