From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] no const?
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 15:29:21 +0100
From: miller@hamnavoe.demon.co.uk
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> This is a bit mysterious...why are volitile and const ignored?

In fact they aren't.  Compilers (if invoked with '-w') will give a warning
message on assignment to identifiers declared const.  And volatile declarations
do influence the register allocation algorithm.

-- Richard Miller