From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <2dcfe3e91404eb3e8623378927444467@coraid.com> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] const From: Brantley Coile Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 10:58:29 -0500 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: bf7e0a48-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > I like Ken's comment in A New C Compiler: > > Volatile seems to have no meaning, so it is hard to tell if ignoring > it is a departure from the standard. Const only confuses library > interfaces with the hope of catching some rare errors. Indeed. But does the keyword do anything in the current compilers? It doesn't seem like the keyword gets ignored. Several [.]VOLATILE constants and a command in 8c/sgen.c:370. bc