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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 14:00:14 +0000
From: David L Rubin <rubin@redconnect.net>
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Subject: [9fans] no const?
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http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/comp.html states

"The compilers do their own register allocation so the register keyword
is ignored. For different reasons, volatile and const are also ignored."

This is a bit mysterious...why are volitile and const ignored?

	david

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