Type Qualifier [volatile]

Dan KoGai dankg at monsoon.Berkeley.EDU
Sat May 26 10:48:45 AEST 1990


In article <803 at ehviea.ine.philips.nl> leo at ehviea.UUCP (Leo de Wit) writes:
>In article <1990May22.124936.5727 at aucs.uucp> 880716a at aucs.UUCP (Dave Astels) writes:
>|In article <4275 at infmx.UUCP> briand at infmx.UUCP (brian donat) writes:
>|>    When would a programmer want to explicitly use the 
>|>		'auto' storage class? 
>|
>|I've often wondered that myself.  If you find out, let me know.

	Come to think there's no such storage classes as "manual", and I
never heard of explicit decreation of "intern" variable.  Is static opposite
to auto? (maybe).  If so auto must have been called "dynamic".

>Today's tendency for J. Random Hacker is to prefer 'bike' storage class
>to 'auto' storage class; using additional keywords like push(-bike) to
>explicitly request stack allocation, or mountain (bike) for huge
>stacks.  The last one is not supported very well on Intel architectures.

	I buy it.  And instead of segmentation fault, you get "flat tire",
"chain is torn", etc.  But in this implementation, pop sometimes dumps
core :)

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