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X-Original-Date: 5 Jan 1996 03:38:08 GMT

In article <4c9740$27n@netlab.cs.rpi.edu>,
Srinivas Vobilisetti  <srv@cs.wayne.edu> wrote:
>X-Original-Date: 31 Dec 1995 01:42:27 GMT
>
>Hello,
>
>I referred to various books on C++ including The C++ Programming Language
>-Bjarne Stroustrup, C++ Primer -Stanley Lipmann, etc.  Nowhere i could find
>exact meaning of the specifier volatile. Thanks in advance for your help. I
>would appreciate the reply at my email address srv@cs.wayne.edu
>
>Thanks
>Srinivas
>srv@cs.wayne.edu

Basically the specifier 'volatile' means that the variable or object
may be corrupted by some external sources, e.g. hardware interrupt.
For example, you can write
	volative const int some_int;
which means some_int may be changed by some external "powers", but not
your program.

Hope this will help

Handong Wang
Department of Computer Science
Univ. of Western Ontario
London Ontario 
Canada
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Handong Wang
Department of Computer Science
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario Canada

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